The scientist I most admire: Edward Jenner
Science is full of people whose contributions make them admirable. I particularly like biological sciences and among the many scientists related to this area I greatly admire Edward Jenner. I admire him because he was the father of vaccination, a discovery that has saved millions of lives. Edward Jenner was an English physician and scientist who developed the first vaccine, in 1796. Although in those times there were already techniques to immunize the body against diseases, these were very dangerous, since several of these techniques consisted of introducing secretions into the body (for example, pus from scabs) containing microorganisms of the disease against which the patient was to be immunized, but this often led to the onset of the disease and even death. Edward Jenner discovered that people infected with a cow disease called cowpox (a "smallpox-like disease" of cows that produces mild, non-lethal symptoms in humans) were immune to smallpox. Knowing this, Jenner inocul...