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Louis Pasteur (1822 – 1895)
Promotion 1843 - Sciences
The illustrious savant, administrator and director of scientific studies for the ENS was authority and discipline incarnate.
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From his arrival in 1857 on, he regularly proposed reforms that he believed to be indispensable. He modernized the laboratories and created, in 1864, the Scientific Annales of the ENS, a high-level publication that ensured the ENS’s new influence at home and abroad.