Pasteur examining a young English girl, one of a family of four, bitten by a rabid Newfoundland dog. Louis Pasteur (December 27, 1822 - September 28, 1895) was a French chemist and bacteriologist who founded the science of microbiology. Pasture discovered that disease could be caused by bacteria transmitted from person to person (the germ theory of disease). He also developed vaccines for rabies and anthrax.

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Louis Pasteur Examining Young Girl, 1886

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