Louis Pasteur Timeline

  • Louis Pasteur was born.

  • Became a Professor of Chemistry

    At the University of Strasbourg
  • Trying to solve a problem with tartaric acid

  • Married Marie Laurent

  • Pasteur became Professor of Chemistry and Dean of the Science faculty

    At the University of Lille
  • Completed his 1st test on Pasteurization

  • Discovered and proved Pasteurization

  • Became partially paralyzed

    Due to a severe brain stroke
  • Elected as an associate member of the Académie de Médecine.

  • First vaccine was discovered.

    With a disease called chicken cholera.
  • His acceptance into the Académie Francaise

    He decided to focus his efforts on rabies.
  • He vaccinated Joseph Meister

    He was a 9-year-old boy who was bitten by a rabid dog.
  • Began an international fundraising campaign

    To build the Pasteur Institute in Paris, then was inaugurated this year.
  • He died.

    At 73 years old.