Edward Jenner Edward Jenner Edward Jenner, FRS FRCPE (17 May 1749 – 26 January 1823) was an English physician and scientist who was the pioneer of smallpox vaccine, the world's first vaccine. The terms "vaccine" and "vaccination" are derived from "Variolae vaccinae" (smallpox of the cow), the term devised by Jenner to denote cowpox. He used it in 1796 in the long title of his "Inquiry into the Variolae vaccinae known as the Cow Pox", in which he described the protective effect of cowpox against smallpox. Jenner is often called "the father of immunology", and his work is said to have "saved
Jenner Academy of the Arts Jenner Academy of the Arts Edward Jenner Elementary Academy of the Arts was a PK-8 school in the Cabrini-Green area of the Near North Side, Chicago, Illinois. A part of Chicago Public Schools (CPS) and named after Edward Jenner, it merged into Ogden International School in 2018. In January and April of 1966, black parents boycotted the school in order to remove the white principal, Mildred Chuchut, of Jenner. CPS transferred her to Stowe Elementary school on August 10, 1966 . Don Terry of "The New York Times" wrote that the school's atmosphere deteriorated after the October 1992 shooting of