Advent Calendar 21


An Advent Calendar of Notable Scientists

Edward Jenner


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English physician and scientist who was the pioneer of smallpox vaccine, the world’s first vaccine. The terms vaccine and vaccination are derived from Variolae vaccinae (smallpox of the cow), the term devised by Jenner to denote cowpox. Jenner is often called “the father of immunology”, and his work is said to have “saved more lives than the work of any other human”