Edward Jenner
1749 – 1823 · United Kingdom · Medicine
Invented vaccination; smallpox is the only human disease ever eradicated.
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- Jonas Salk
1914 – 1995 · Medicine
Mass immunisation as public policy begins with the smallpox vaccine.
- Louis Pasteur
1822 – 1895 · Chemistry, Medicine
Pasteur generalised Jennerian vaccination from one disease to a principle of attenuation.
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