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Original – French chemist and microbiologist Louis Pasteur made important developments in pasteurization and vaccination.
ALT – Slight restoration
Reason
Important person in the history of medicine, surprisingly good quality photo. I just replaced the previous lead image in Louis Pasteur with this one because the image size is much larger and I think the composition is better. This image was already in the article but further down.
Articles in which this image appears
Louis Pasteur, Social history of viruses, Scientist, Université Lille Nord de France
FP category for this image
Wikipedia:Featured pictures/People/Science and engineering
Creator
Nadar
I hate to say this, but... the restored version really doesn't go far enough. The top of his hairline has a brown spot, which can't be part of the original photograph, and there's dust marks in the lower left area, as well as right and left of the head. I'd rather not promote a partial restoration, when a little more work would get us there, but it is better than the original, so I can't support that either. It's a JPEG, too, or I'd just edit Crisco's myself - but, sadly, I know that editing JPEGs repeatedly rapidly leads to unusable files. 'Reluctant oppose for the moment' Adam Cuerden (talk) 18:22, 12 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you. I am now delighted to Support alt, and hope that me reviewing my conditional slightly after the time won't be held against this image. Firefox was messing up. Adam Cuerden (talk) 13:26, 13 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Promoted File:Louis Pasteur, foto av Paul Nadar, Crisco edit.jpg --Armbrust The Homunculus 15:02, 13 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]