STELE PIERRE VICTOR GALTIER
Precursor of the vaccine against rabies. Born in Langogne on October 15, 1846 - died on April 24, 1908. He was the first to develop a vaccine against rabies (for laboratory animals) with convincing experimental results. He died shortly before learning that the Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine was to be awarded to him (the prize is not awarded posthumously).
Precursor of the vaccine against rabies.
Born in Langogne on October 15, 1846 - died on April 24, 1908 in La Mulatière, near Lyon.
He was a veterinarian and professor, for thirty years, of the chair of pathology of contagious diseases, sanitary police and commercial and medical legislation at the veterinary school of Lyon. He was the first to develop a vaccine against rabies (for laboratory animals) with convincing experimental results. In 1907, he received a token of esteem from the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, which asked him to send all of his work on rabies in order to nominate him for the Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine for 1908. He died shortly before learning that the Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine was to be awarded to him (the prize is not awarded posthumously).
