Louis Pasteur

Louis Pasteur

male, deceased (1895)
Louis Pasteur (December 27 1822 - September 28 1895) was a French chemist best known for his remarkable breakthroughs in microbiology. His...
Robert Koch

Robert Koch

male, deceased (1910)
Robert Koch was a German physician. He became famous for isolating Bacillus anthracis (1877), the tuberculosis bacillus (1882) and the cholera...
Oswaldo Cruz

Oswaldo Cruz

male, deceased (1917)
Oswaldo Gonçalves Cruz, better know as Oswaldo Cruz, (b. August 5, 1872, São Luíz de Paraitinga, São Paulo state, Brazil; d. February 11, 1917, Petr...
Theodor Escherich

Theodor Escherich

male, deceased (1911)
Theodor Escherich (29 November 1857 - 15 February 1911) was a German-Austrian pediatrician and a professor at universities in Munich, Graz, and...
Rita R. Colwell

Rita R. Colwell

female
Rita R. Colwell (born 1934) is an environmental microbiologist and scientific administrator. She became 11th Director of the United States National...
Albert Calmette

Albert Calmette

male, deceased (1933)
Léon Charles Albert Calmette was a French physician, bacteriologist and immunologist, and an important officer of the Pasteur Institute. He d...
Alfred Hershey

Alfred Hershey

male, deceased (1997) (Owosso, Michigan, United States)
Alfred Day Hershey was an American Nobel Prize-winning bacteriologist and geneticist. He was born in Owosso, Michigan and received his B.S. in...
Alexandre Yersin

Alexandre Yersin

male, deceased (1943)
Alexandre Emile John Yersin (September 22, 1863-March 1, 1943) was a French-Swiss physician and bacteriologist. Along with Shibasaburo Kitasato he...
Pascale Cossart

Pascale Cossart

female
Dr. Pascale Cossart is an award-winning bacteriologist at the Pasteur Institute of Paris, and the foremost authority on "Listeria monocytogenes", a...
Kitasato Shibasaburo

Kitasato Shibasaburo

male, deceased (1931)
was a Japanese physician and bacteriologist. He is remembered as the co-discoverer of the infectious agent of bubonic plague in Hong Kong in 1894,...