Edward Jenner is known as, “the father of
Immunology.” He was an English physician and scientist that made a smallpox
vaccine from the cowpox virus. This is known to be the world’s first vaccine
and this discovery is said have saved more lives than the work of any other
human being. Because of his work, World Health Organization declared smallpox
an eradicated disease in the 1979. Up to the year 2002, Jenner was still being
recognizes in the field of contemporary immunology and was even included in the
list of 100 Greatest Britons.
