STELE PIERRE VICTOR GALTIER

Pioneer of the rabies vaccine. Born in Langogne on October 15, 1846 – died on April 24, 1908, in La Mulatière, near Lyon. He was a veterinarian and, for thirty years, a full professor of the pathology of infectious diseases, public health, and commercial and medical legislation at the veterinary school in Lyon. He was the first to develop a rabies vaccine (for laboratory animals) with conclusive experimental results. In 1907, he received a letter of appreciation from the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, which asked him to submit all his work on rabies in order to nominate him for the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for 1908. He died shortly before learning that he would be awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (the prize is not awarded posthumously).