Biography edward jenner
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Edward Jenner
Edward Jenner was born on 17th May 1749, an English physician who would go on to be become one of the most influential scientists of all time. A pioneer of the smallpox vaccine, his work would go on to save countless lives; it is not hard to see why he is often referred to as “the father of immunology”.
He began his life in Gloucestershire, the son of local Reverend Stephen Jenner and the eighth of nine children.
He went to school in Wotton-under-Edge and benefited from a strong education, being taught all the necessary basics.
Biography edward jenner
He would spend much of his childhood in the rural surroundings of Berkeley before leaving to train as a surgeon in London.
Whilst he was still very young he received a treatment against smallpox. This was an inoculation also known as a variolation, whereby samples are taken from infected patients, with the desire that a mild infection would provide future protection.
This had a long-term impact on Jenner.
At the age of fourteen, his career l