Joachim Pasteur

Joachim-François Pasteur (born July 15, 1930) is a French-born American chemist and physicist. He is the son of a World War I veteran, Dr Augustin Pasteur, the winner of the 1976 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. He is currently a professor at Stony Brook University. Besides teaching career, he is also a Catholic parish priest of the Roman Catholic Cathedral of St. Gerard.

Early life
He was born in Bordeaux, France on July 15, 1930, the youngest son of Dr Augustin Pasteur, a cardiologist, and his wife Mrs Elena Beth Pasteur née Miles, a daughter of the late American Civil War veteran, Gen. Nelson Appleton Miles and Mrs Anna-Marie Miles née Baumann. Joachim is one of the great grandchildren of a famous late German socialist, Georg Baumann, American Civil War General, Nelson Appleton Miles and a microbiologist and chemist, Louis Pasteur. In the year 1962, Joachim had a new relationship with Erzebeth Szabó-Pasteur, a Hungarian retired philosophy teacher, and has four children with her. After 3 years of dating, Joachim married Erzebeth in 1961.

He is also the youngest brother to a composer, Étienne Pasteur.

Education
Pasteur attended New York University and graduated with a BA in 1953, then later in 1953, in Germany as a student, he started his education in Catholic Theology at the University of Bonn.

Career
In 1978, Pasteur received the MacArthur Award for his work in the field of physics and chemistry. In addition, he has received an award from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation for his continued research.

After receiving Degree in Catholic Theology, he was ordained as the parish priest to the Archdiocese of New York in 1963 by Archbishop Francis Joseph Spellman. In 1965, Pasteur joined as the teacher of Chemistry in Stuyvesant High School. After 5 years of working as the chemistry teacher, in 1973 he joined Stony Brook University as a professor of chemistry. He was also a visiting scientist at Cornell University in 1996.