This memorial tablet of Louis Thuillier can be seen in the Institut Pasteur, in Paris where the young biologist was working when, “in 1883, he was sent on a mission to Alexandria with Émile Roux (1853-1933) and Edmond Nocard (1850-1903) to study an epidemic of cholera. Thuillier contracted the disease and died on September 19, 1883 at the age of 27″1.
It is a work of French sculptor Auguste Carvin, whose signature is visible.
- Photo by Luca Borghi @ (July 2014), courtesy of the Institut Pasteur
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