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A drawing of Louis Pasteur in his laboratory, studying a flask, with bottles on the shelves behind him and his name in Hindi and English, on a ₹5 stamp. Catalogues identify the source as the painting of Pasteur by Albert Edelfelt.
Louis Pasteur
India Post issued this ₹5 stamp on 28 September 1995, the centenary of the death of Louis Pasteur (1822–1895), the French chemist and microbiologist. He is renowned for the principles of vaccination, for microbial fermentation and for pasteurisation, which is named after him, and his work is credited with saving millions of lives through vaccines for rabies and anthrax. He is also regarded as one of the fathers of the germ theory of disease. India Post’s brochure for this issue is not online, so this text draws on Wikipedia and on the stamp itself.
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