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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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Edward Jenner has received more than 3,620,441 page views. His biography is available in 97 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 95 in 2019). Edward Jenner is the 7th most popular physician (down from 6th in 2019), the 42nd most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 44th in 2019) and the 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 7 out of 502. Before him are Hippocrates, Florence Nightingale, Galen, Paracelsus, Robert Koch, and Josef Mengele. After him are Basil of Caesarea, Andreas Vesalius, Muhammad ibn Zakariya al-Razi, L. L. Zamenhof, Albert Schweitzer, and William Harvey.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1749, Edward Jenner ranks 2. Before him is Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. After him are Pierre-Simon Laplace, Christian VII of Denmark, Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau, Nicolas Appert, Domenico Cimarosa, Yolande de Polastron, Marie Thérèse Louise of Savoy, Princesse de Lamballe, Lorenzo Da Ponte, Daniel Rutherford, and Jean Baptiste Joseph Delambre. Among people deceased in 1823, Edward Jenner ranks 1. After him are David Ricardo, Pope Pius VII, Louis-Nicolas Davout, Lazare Carnot, Jacques Charles, Giovanni Battista Belzoni, Ann Radcliffe, André-Jacques Garnerin, Charles François Dumouriez, Abraham-Louis Breguet, and Edmund Cartwright.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Edward Jenner ranks 42 out of 7,765. Before him are Mary II of England (1662), James Prescott Joule (1818), Thomas More (1478), Arthur Conan Doyle (1859), Anthony Hopkins (1937), and John Lennon (1940). After him are James Clerk Maxwell (1831), Bertrand Russell (1872), Sean Connery (1930), Francis Drake (1540), Daniel Defoe (1660), and Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother (1900).

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Among PHYSICIANS In United Kingdom

Among physicians born in United Kingdom, Edward Jenner ranks 1. After him are William Harvey (1578), Joseph Lister (1827), James Parkinson (1755), Elizabeth Blackwell (1821), Edgar Adrian (1889), John Snow (1813), Niels Kaj Jerne (1911), Frederick Griffith (1879), Mungo Park (1771), John Langdon Down (1828), and Alan Hodgkin (1914).

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