Edward Jenner was an English physician who is credited with successfully introducing the practice of vaccinating against smallpox. Jenner, apprenticed to a surgeon as a boy, studied medicine briefly in London before returning to his rural hometown to open his own medical practice (1792). Following up on local lore that said dairymaids who had contracted cowpox were immune to smallpox, Jenner decided to see if he could adapt the Turkish practice of inoculation to prevent the spread and devastation of smallpox. In May of 1796 he took a gamble and inoculated James Phipps, the 8 year-old son of a local farmer. Phipps was exposed to fluid from the pustules of a woman with cowpox. The boy contracted cowpox, and several weeks later Jenner exposed him to smallpox. Fortunately, the boy didn't contract smallpox and Jenner's theory was proved correct. After other successful trials, Jenner published his findings in Inquiry into the Cause and Effects of the Variolae Vaccinae in 1798. Jenner went on to become famous as the world embraced "vaccination," a term he coined (because vacca is Latin for cow, and vaccinia was the term for cowpox). Jenner was also an educated naturalist and horticulturist, an amateur geologist and zoologist (he was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society for a paper on the nesting habits of the cuckoo) and a fossil hunter who discovered the bones of a plesiosaur in 1819.
Edward Anthony Jenner (17 May 1749 - 26 January 1823) was an English scientist who studied his natural surroundings in Berkeley, Gloucestershire. Jenner is widely credited as the pioneer of smallpox vaccine and is sometimes referred to as the "Father of Immunology"; his works have been said to have "saved more lives than the work of any other man".
Edward Anthony Jenner (17 May 1749 - 26 January 1823) was an English scientist who studied his natural surroundings in Berkeley, Gloucestershire. Jenner is widely credited as the pioneer of smallpox vaccine.
He found a vaccination for the smallpox disease.
Edward Jenner was the pioneer of smallpox vaccination and the father of immunology (www.bbc.co.uk) so yes, Iwould say he is pretty famous
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Edward Jenner came from England.
Yes, Edward Jenner did marry.
She was the dairy maid whom Edward Jenner took a sample of cowpox from, to infect James Phipps with cowpox.
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Louis Pasteur came up with Germ Theory, which explained why Edward Jenner's vaccination worked.Best Known As: Renowned inventor of pasteurization
The history and work of Edward Jenner would be that he was an English physician and scientist from Berkeley, Gloucestershire, who was the pioneer of the smallpox vaccine.
The Edward Jenner Museum, in the home where Jenner lived most of his life, is named for him.
No, Edward Jenner was not 91 when he died. He was 73.
the smallpox vaccine.
In 1788, Edward Jenner married Catherine Kingscote.
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