Louis Pasteur

Born in Dôle, Louis Pasteur (1822-1895) was nominated for professor and senior of the new Faculty of Science of Lille in 1854. Industrial accidents in the manufacture of alcohol of beet in 1856, a regional product, are at the beginning of his researches on fermentation, in particular alcoholic. He isolates lactic yeast and then he shows a correlative phenomenon with the life. In August 1857, he reads a paper on lactic fermentation at the Society of Sciences of Lille. Then he returns to Paris in December.


The Pasteur Institute, inaugurated in Paris in 1888, has a provincial subsidiary company in Lille. And, on the place which faces the Faculty of Science, now transformed into apartments, we can see a statue of Pasteur curing the Meister young person of the rage.

A steamer is also called after his name. It is represented opposite on a stamp for the benefit performance of the victims of the sea.
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