List of things named after Louis Pasteur

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Commemorative plaque of Louis Pasteur's work (Ecole normale superieure, Paris). P1250442 Paris V rue Ulm plaque Pasteur bis rwk.jpg
Commemorative plaque of Louis Pasteur's work (École normale supérieure, Paris).

This article is a list of things named after the French scientist Louis Pasteur (1822-1895).

Contents

Science

Institut Pasteur

Historical building of the Institut Pasteur in Paris. Institut Pasteur, Paris 1.jpg
Historical building of the Institut Pasteur in Paris.

Others

Astronomical features

Educational

Elementary schools

Louis Pasteur Elementary School in Detroit, Michigan (United States)


Louis Pasteur Elementary School in Chicago, Illinois (United States)

Middle school

High schools

Universities

Hospitals

Stations

The station Pasteur - AMIA of the metro of Buenos Aires (Argentina). PasteurSubte1.jpg
The station Pasteur - AMIA of the metro of Buenos Aires (Argentina).

Streets

Harvard Medical School quadrangle, facing the Avenue Louis Pasteur. Harvard Medical School HDR.jpg
Harvard Medical School quadrangle, facing the Avenue Louis Pasteur.

France

In France, there are about 2,020 streets named after Louis Pasteur [1]

Vietnam

  • Avenue Pasteur, Ho Chi Minh City (one of the few streets in that city to retain its French name)

United States

Iran

Pasteur Street is an important street in Tehran, Iran in which key government institutions are located. It is highly secured because of the presence of key institutions such as the office of the Iranian President, the center of Iran's Revolutionary Guards Intelligence leadership, the center of the Assembly of Experts, and the Supreme National Security Council. Also Several military schools, the center of the Armed Forces Logistics and Center for Strategic Studies are located in the street

Canada

Indonesia

  • Pasteur street and Pasteur village in Bandung

Other locations

See also

Notes and references

  1. Noms et nombre de voies les plus représentées en France Archived 2005-10-21 at the Wayback Machine , La Poste (France) (archive page visited on 22 July 2016). See also the article "Louis Pasteur" in the French version of Wikipedia.
  2. "Place name detail: Mount Pasteur". New Zealand Gazetteer. New Zealand Geographic Board . Retrieved 21 August 2022.

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