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Louis Pasteur
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Louis Pasteur in his laboratory, painting by Albert Edelfelt, 1885.
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French chemist and microbiologist Louis Pasteur.
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Louis Pasteur, coloured lithograph from
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French chemist and microbiologist Louis Pasteur (1852).
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