William Pasteur

William Pasteur (1855–1943) was a British physician and pioneer of pulmonology.

Biography After education at the cram school Philberds, Maidenhead, On 15 May 1911 he delivered his presidential address to the Medical Society of London on post-operative lung complications. During WWI he served from 1914 to 1918, at the Rouen base with the temporary rank of Colonel, Army Medical Services, as consultant physician to the British Armies in France. His predecessor in that post was James Kingston Fowler.

Family William Pasteur's parents emigrated from Switzerland to England. In 1890 William Pasteur married Violet Mabel Seddon. They had two daughters and a son.

The term atelectasis pulmonum was introduced in 1832 by the physician Eduard Jörg (1808–1878), whose father was Johann Christian Gottfried Jörg (1779–1856), Leipzig professor of medicine, specializing in obstetrics, gynecology, and pediatrics. Clinical interest in atelectasis was stimulated by William Pasteur's presentation in 1890.

Selected publications with Solomon Solis-Cohen: