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In the 19th century, tuberculosis killed millions of people. A german physician, Koch, had discovered the micro organism responsible for the disease. But he did not succed in creating a vaccine against it. Albert Calemette was a physician working for the Pasteur Institute. With a vet of the same Institute, Guérin, he created this vaccine : the BCG.
Albert Calmette was born in Nice in 1863, in a house located 10 rue de la Préfecture. His mother died when he was 2 y.o. When he was 6, his father, a civil servant in the Prefecture was transfered to Bordeaux and took his family along with him. Albert Calmette would never live in Nice again. He died in 1933.