The Pasteur Medal is given every ten years by the Swedish Society of Medicine (SSM) to a scientist who has excelled in the fields of bacteriology or hygiene. It first was struck and given to its honorand

Louis Pasteur Louis Pasteur (, ; 27 December 1822 – 28 September 1895) was a French chemist and microbiologist renowned for his discoveries of the principles of vaccination, microbial fermentation and pasteurization, the latter of which was named afte ...

on the occasion of his 70th birthday in 1892. The

Yale Art Gallery The Yale University Art Gallery (YUAG) is the oldest university art museum in the Western Hemisphere. It houses a major encyclopedic collection of art in several interconnected buildings on the campus of Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut. ...

mischaracterizes the

bronze Bronze is an alloy consisting primarily of copper, commonly with about 12–12.5% tin and often with the addition of other metals (including aluminium, manganese, nickel, or zinc) and sometimes non-metals, such as phosphorus, or metalloids such ...

medallion as French. The medal was designed by Frenchman Victor Peter (1840–1918).

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