2023-04-24 10:46:43
Gaston Ramon (here, in 1941, at the Pasteur Institute) was proposed 155 times for the Nobel Prize, without ever obtaining it. Stanley B. Burns, MD & The Burns Archive/Bridgeman Images
MEDICINE STORIES – This researcher from the Institut Pasteur notably invented, with the military doctor Christian Zoeller, the associated vaccines, which make it possible to immunize against several diseases in the same injection.
He’s a pastor like no other, thick mustache and hair, full beard, hard worker and austere. “For ten years I have had no holidays, no rest, no entertainment of any kind…”wrote Gaston Ramon in 1936, according to Théodore Monod who paid homage to him in 1964 before the Academy of Sciences. ““Work and f… you for the rest” said to me and even wrote Mr. Roux (then director of the Institut Pasteur, Editor’s note)and I am quite determined for my part to follow this energetic advice to the letter., also testified Ramon. Veterinarian and biologist, the man is also the holder of a sad record: despite 155 nominations for the Nobel Prize in Medicine, he has never been a winner. And his name is largely forgotten today, despite several major discoveries for vaccination…
A graduate of the National Veterinary School of Alfort in 1910, the young man quickly joined the Pasteur Institute. He dreams of research, but initially only has a technical role: Gaston Ramon is in charge of producing the antitoxin…
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