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Edward Jenner

1749 - 1823

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Edward Jenner (17 May 1749 – 26 January 1823) was an English physician and scientist who pioneered the concept of vaccines and created the smallpox vaccine, the world's first vaccine. The terms vaccine and vaccination are derived from Variolae vaccinae ('pustules of the cow'), the term devised by Jenner to denote cowpox. He used it in 1798 in the title of his Inquiry into the Variolae vaccinae known as the Cow Pox, in which he described the protective effect of cowpox against smallpox. Jenner is often called "the father of immunology", and his work is said to have saved "more lives than any other man".: 100  In Jenner's time, smallpox killed around 10% of the global population, with the number as high as 20% in towns and cities where infection spread more easily. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Edward Jenner is the 10th most popular physician (down from 8th in 2019), the 98th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 62nd in 2019) and the 2nd most popular British Physician.

Edward Jenner is most famous for his development of the smallpox vaccine. Jenner's vaccine was the first to use cowpox, a related virus, as an immunization against smallpox.

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Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, Edward Jenner ranks 10 out of 726. Before him are Josef Mengele, Robert Koch, Florence Nightingale, Basil of Caesarea, L. L. Zamenhof, and Joseph Lister. After him are Anthony Fauci, Albert Schweitzer, Andreas Vesalius, Edgar Adrian, Ignaz Semmelweis, and William Harvey.

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Among people born in 1749, Edward Jenner ranks 3. Before him are Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, and Pierre-Simon Laplace. After him are Nicolas Appert, Christian VII of Denmark, Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau, Domenico Cimarosa, Marie Thérèse Louise of Savoy, Princesse de Lamballe, Yolande de Polastron, Lorenzo Da Ponte, Daniel Rutherford, and Adélaïde Labille-Guiard. Among people deceased in 1823, Edward Jenner ranks 2. Before him is Pope Pius VII. After him are David Ricardo, Louis-Nicolas Davout, Lazare Carnot, Giovanni Battista Belzoni, Jacques Charles, Charles François Dumouriez, André-Jacques Garnerin, Ann Radcliffe, Rafael del Riego, and Abraham-Louis Breguet.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Edward Jenner ranks 98 out of 8,785. Before him are Charles Babbage (1791), Princess Alice of Battenberg (1885), Thomas More (1478), Joseph Lister (1827), Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother (1900), and Sean Connery (1930). After him are William Wallace (1270), Oliver Cromwell (1599), John Dee (1527), Alex Ferguson (1941), Jane Austen (1775), and Edward Heath (1916).

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Among PHYSICIANS In United Kingdom

Among physicians born in United Kingdom, Edward Jenner ranks 2. Before him are Joseph Lister (1827). After him are Edgar Adrian (1889), William Harvey (1578), Alan Hodgkin (1914), John Snow (1813), James Black (1924), Niels Kaj Jerne (1911), James Parkinson (1755), Elizabeth Blackwell (1821), Robert Knox (1791), and Hans Sloane (1660).

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