Edward Jenner

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1660-Today The Royal Society AKA The President, Council and Fellows of the Royal Society of London for Improving Natural Knowledge
1733-Today St George's, University of London
British immunologists
Cirencester Grammar School
English biologists
experiments involving children
Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Freemen of the City of London
History of medicine in the United Kingdom
Katharine Lady Berkeley's School
Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
Smallpox vaccines
University of St Andrews
Vaccines and Vaccinations
Vaccinologists

1798 The history of vaccination conventionally dates from Jenner's work published in 1798, which demonstrated that deliberate inoculation with material from cowpox lesions resulted in protection against smallpox.
1996-2005 Edward Jenner Institute for Vaccine Research
2005 Military Medicine - History of military vaccination timeline
2020 Forbes - The Hideous Truths of Testing Vaccines on Humans
Edward Jenner Medal
Jenner Society
The idea goes back to the grandfather of vaccines himself, Edward Jenner, who used an 8-year-old boy as the first test subject of his groundbreaking smallpox vaccine in the late 18th century.
U.S. military interest in the concept of immunization preceded the work of Jenner and continues unabated today.