Louis Pasteur

Louis Pasteur used the fame of his 1885 rabies treatment to launch an international public subscription, and the Pasteur Institute opened in Paris in 1888 to treat rabies, research infectious disease and train microbiologists. Colleagues such as Émile Roux and Élie Metchnikoff led much of its early research, and pupils spread a network of Pasteur Institutes abroad. Researchers there later identified HIV in 1983.