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          Edward Jenner

          English physician and pioneer of vaccines (–)

          For the New Zealand poet and translator, see Edward Jenner (writer).

          Edward Jenner (17 May – 26 January ) was an English physician and scientist who pioneered the concept of vaccines and created the smallpox vaccine, the world's first vaccine.[1][2] 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 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.[3]

          In the West, Jenner is often called "the father of immunology",[4] and his work is said to have saved "more lives than any other man".[5]:&#;&#;[6] 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 ea