Edward Jenner

The Carleton Prize for Biotechnology: Edward Jenner Meika Johnston 101024738 BIOL1010 1.1 Introduction The Carleton Prize for Biotechnology should be awarded to a scientist who has helped the field in many regards. Edward Jenner has aided the Biotechnology not only during his time period, but also the rest of the foreseeable future. Edward Jenner was the father of vaccination, which allowed immunization for smallpox, and then give the footprints of the immunization of several other diseases and illness in the future. This report states why Edward Jenner is the best nominee. 1.2 Problem Introduction Smallpox appeared around 10,000 bce. It is highly contagious and causes disfiguration from lesions and blisters. After the incubation period, the lesions form around the face, hands and forearms, later to develop in the mucous membranes of the nose…

My chosen exemplar is Edward Jenner (1749-1823). Edward Jenner is the discoverer of the smallpox vaccine during the eighteenth century which saved many lives at that time and still till this day. Jenner has been widely known as the ‘father of immunology’. Jenner’s publication of his findings that cowpox could protect against the fatal disease, smallpox, gotten him support by the scientific community. Jenner was also promoting vaccination among the poor. Jenner went on to form many scientific…

The “father of immunization” Edward Jenner was well-known for his creativity and wisdom. As a large contributor of revolutionizing the face of medicine, Jenner’s experiment with a dangerous and deadly infection transformed into prevention at its finest. The health care industry between the seventeen to eighteen hundreds lacked prevention methods which could have saved thousands of lives. It was during this time infections were considered a death sentence since the use of antibiotics were…

Edward Jenner (17 May 1749-26 January 1823) was an English physician and scientist. He is known for being the pioneer of smallpox vaccine, the world’s first vaccine. 60% of the population in Britain at the time caught smallpox and 20% of the population died of it. Jenner was also the first person to describe the brood parasitism of the cuckoo, which is when an organism relies on others to raise its young. He was born in Berkeley, Gloucestershire and worked there as well. Major events that…

Dr. Edward Jenner lived between the years 1749 and 1823. During that time period, Smallpox was a disease that killed approximately between 10% and 20% of the population. It was a horrible disease that left multiple deep scars all over people’s bodies if it did not kill them first. During the time period of Chapter 19, many advances were made in medicine. Dr. Jenner’s discovery, experimentation, and invention of the vaccine for smallpox is one of those many advances. Dr. Jenner is considered…

It was in late eighteenth century Edward Jenner discovered a safer immunizing technique that could replace the preexisting variolation technique, the vaccination. The method of variolation encountered significant death rate which led the world go panic. Therefore, physicians were on the quest of finding a new and more secure method of immunization with minimal or no death rates. On this basis, an English physician named Edward Jenner (1748–1823) searched for a cure for smallpox, a devastating…

survived. That's what inspired him to research for a vaccination to help people from the suffering of smallpox. The news of this development spread quickly and people respond positively by offering themselves for a cure. Jenner had a theory that cowpox which is a less harmful disease than smallpox, but yet very similar was protecting many farmers where he lived. A women who had cowpox went in for check up. Jenner took samples from here hand sores she has been developing. Jenner approach a farmer…

The history of vaccines and immunization began in 1796 when Edward Jenner, a doctor living in Berkeley, England, performed the world’s first vaccination (Stern & Markel, 2005). Jenner “took pus from a cow pox lesion on a milkmaid’s hand” and “inoculated an eight-year-old boy” (Stern & Markel, 2005, p.612). Six weeks later, Jenner again inoculated two sites on the boys arm and he was unaffected. This was the beginning of vaccines and expanded greatly in the late 19th and early twentieth…

The history of vaccines goes way back to 1000 CE. A vaccine timeline on historyofvaccines.org shows that there is evidence that the Chinese in early 1000 CE employed a smallpox inoculation and it was also practiced through Africa and Turkey as well (History of Vaccines). The next big vaccine epidemic started with Edward Jenner. He was a very successful man when his use of cowpox material to create immunity to smallpox quickly made the practice wide-spread in 1796. Edward Jenner took pus from a…

However, not every parent wishes to have their children vaccinated out of fear that it will do more harm than good. Overall, Vaccines have had an interesting history. Since their invention, they have been standardized, praised, and criticized. No one is entirely sure as to where the first immunization was used. There is much speculation into it being used in ancient times in China, India, and even Persia. However, the first ever recorded vaccine was done by Edward Jenner in 1796. Smallpox was a…