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Portrait of Albert Calmette

  • Circa 1923 (Date of original photograph)

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Portrait photograph of French physician, bacteriologist and immunologist Albert Calmette (1863-1933) who was an associate of the French chemist, biologist and microbiologist Louis Pasteur (1822-1895). As an officer of the Institut Pasteur de Lille, Calmette worked with French veterinarian, bacteriologist and immunologist Jean-Marie Camille Guérin (1872-1961) discovering how to culture the tuberculosis bacillus, Mycobacterium tuberculosis (also known as BCG or Bacillus Calmette-Guérin). In addition, they developed the first effective anti-tuberculosis vaccine in 1921.

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  • 3.75 in. H x 2.75 in. W
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  • (Text underneath portrait) "Albert Calmette, who studied as a young man with Pasteur, later did important work at the Lille Institute. While at Lille, he discovered BCG anti-tuberculosis vaccination."
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  • Courtesy of Science History Institute

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  • Box 1, Folder 22

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“Portrait of Albert Calmette,” circa 1923. Fisher-Pasteur Memorial Collection, Box 1, Folder 22. Science History Institute. Philadelphia. https://digital.sciencehistory.org/works/rv042t15z.

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