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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 3,714,750 page views. His biography is available in 100 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 97 in 2019). Edward Jenner is the 8th most popular physician (down from 7th in 2019), the 62nd most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 42nd 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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  • 100

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  • 11.90

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  • 4.40

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Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, Edward Jenner ranks 8 out of 726. Before him are Galen, Paracelsus, Florence Nightingale, Robert Koch, Basil of Caesarea, and Josef Mengele. After him are L. L. Zamenhof, Muhammad ibn Zakariya al-Razi, Andreas Vesalius, Albert Schweitzer, William Harvey, and Ignaz Semmelweis.

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Contemporaries

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

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Edward Jenner ranks 62 out of 8,785. Before him are Olav V of Norway (1903), Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother (1900), Emily Brontë (1818), Herbert Spencer (1820), Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon (1930), and William Wallace (1270). After him are Virginia Woolf (1882), Charles, Prince of Wales (1948), Harold Harefoot (1016), Thomas Robert Malthus (1766), Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell (1857), and John Stuart Mill (1806).

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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), Elizabeth Blackwell (1821), Joseph Lister (1827), James Parkinson (1755), Niels Kaj Jerne (1911), John Snow (1813), Edgar Adrian (1889), James Black (1924), John Langdon Down (1828), Frederick Griffith (1879), and Alan Hodgkin (1914).

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