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Thanks to his contributions to the field, he is sometimes known as the father of bacteriology, a title shared with Louis Pasteur.

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The Institut Pasteur, a non-profit foundation with recognized charitable status set up by Louis Pasteur in 1887, is today an internationally renowned center for biomedical research.

In 19th-century France, the young chemist challenged the theory of spontaneous generation and discovered an invisible world of airborne microbes.