Jean Binot (11 August 1867 – 25 November 1909) was a French microbiologist born in Saint-Mandé, Val-de-Marne. He studied medicine in Paris, where one of his instructors was Raphael Blanchard (1857–1919). In 1887 he began work as an assistant préparateur in histology at the Collège de France, followed by an assignment as externe to the hospitals of Paris. In 1892 he became a hospital interne, and during the following year began taking courses in microbiology at the Pasteur Institute in Paris… Read more...