List of people associated with vaccination
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This is a list of people associated in some way with vaccination.
Developers of vaccines
- Thomas Francis, Jr.Thomas Francis, Jr.Thomas Francis, Jr. was an American physician, virologist, and epidemiologist. Francis was the first person to isolate influenza virus in America, and in 1940 showed that there are other strains of influenza, and took part in the development of influenza vaccines.- Life and achievements :Francis...
, MD - Maurice HillemanMaurice HillemanMaurice Ralph Hilleman was an American microbiologist who specialized in vaccinology and developed over three dozen vaccines, more than any other scientist...
- Edward JennerEdward JennerEdward Anthony Jenner was an English scientist who studied his natural surroundings in Berkeley, Gloucestershire...
, MD - Hilary KoprowskiHilary KoprowskiHilary Koprowski is a Polish virologist and immunologist, and inventor of the world's first effective live polio vaccine.-Life:...
, MD - Paul OffitPaul OffitPaul A. Offit, M.D., is an American pediatrician specializing in infectious diseases and an expert on vaccines, immunology, and virology. He is the co-inventor of a rotavirus vaccine that has been credited with saving hundreds of lives every day. Offit is the Maurice R...
, MD - Louis PasteurLouis PasteurLouis Pasteur was a French chemist and microbiologist born in Dole. He is remembered for his remarkable breakthroughs in the causes and preventions of diseases. His discoveries reduced mortality from puerperal fever, and he created the first vaccine for rabies and anthrax. His experiments...
- Stanley PlotkinStanley PlotkinStanley Plotkin is an American physician who currently works as an adviser at pharmaceutical firm Sanofi Pasteur. In the 1960s, he played a pivotal role in discovery of a vaccine against rubella virus while working at Wistar Institute in Philadelphia. Plotkin was a member of Wistar’s active...
, MD - Albert SabinAlbert SabinAlbert Bruce Sabin was an American medical researcher best known for having developed an oral polio vaccine.-Life:...
, MD - Jonas SalkJonas SalkJonas Edward Salk was an American medical researcher and virologist, best known for his discovery and development of the first safe and effective polio vaccine. He was born in New York City to parents from Ashkenazi Jewish Russian immigrant families...
, MD - Marshall LightowlersMarshall LightowlersProfessor Marshall Lightowlers began his career in the field of parasitology during a post-doctoral appointment at the Institute of Medical and Veterinary Science in Adelaide where he undertook research on ovine sarcocystosis...
Anti-vaccinationists
- Neil Z. MillerNeil Z. MillerNeil Z. Miller is an American medical research journalist, anti-vaccine and natural health advocate based in Santa Fe, New Mexico. He is the author of numerous articles and books on vaccines, the publisher of the New Atlantean Press, and the director of the Thinktwice Global Vaccine Institute...
- Alan CantwellAlan CantwellAlan Cantwell Jr., M.D., , is a retired dermatologist. Between the late 1960s and mid-1980s, Cantwell was author or co-author of around 30 case reports describing bacteria found in cases of scleroderma, panniculitis, and dermatological malignancies.More recently, he has written conspiracy theory...
- Glen DettmanGlen DettmanGlen Dettman was an Australian pathologist and medical writer who, in 1950, founded the Oakleigh Pathology Service. He was the author of over 50 technical papers, 28 of which are listed on PubMed, and was awarded in 1978 the Australian Medal of Merit for outstanding scientific research....
- Barbara Loe Fisher
- Archie KalokerinosArchie KalokerinosArchivides "Archie" Kalokerinos is an Australian physician. In 2000 he was awarded the title Greek Australian of the Century by the Melbourne-based Greek newspaper Neos Kosmos. He holds controversial opinions on a number of medical issues...
- Mark GeierMark GeierMark R. Geier is a self-employed American physician and controversial professional witness who has testified in more than 90 cases regarding allegations of injury or illness caused by vaccines....
- Jenny McCarthyJenny McCarthyJennifer Ann "Jenny" McCarthy is an American model, comedian, actress, author, activist, and game show host. She began her career in 1993 as a nude model for Playboy magazine and was later named their Playmate of the Year. McCarthy then parlayed her Playboy fame into a successful television and...
- Andrew WakefieldAndrew WakefieldAndrew Wakefield is a British former surgeon and medical researcher, known as an advocate for the discredited claim that there is a link between the measles, mumps and rubella vaccine, autism and bowel disease, and for his fraudulent 1998 research paper in support of that claim.Four years after...
- Beddow Bayly
- Gerhard BuchwaldGerhard BuchwaldGerhard Buchwald was a German medical doctor and vaccination critic from Eisenberg, Thuringia.Buchwald studied medicine in Königsberg , Danzig , and Jena and obtained his doctorate at the University of Hamburg...
- Robert S. MendelsohnRobert S. MendelsohnRobert S. Mendelsohn was an American pediatrician who criticized his profession, inveighing against pediatric practice, obstetric orthodoxy and the effect of the preponderance of male obstetricians, and vaccination...
- Hans RüeschHans RüeschHans Ruesch was a Swiss racing driver, a novelist, and an internationally prominent activist against animal experiments and vivisection.-Family:...
- Viera ScheibnerViera ScheibnerViera Scheibner is a retired micropaleontologist . From 1958 until 1968 she was assistant professor in the department of geology at Comenius University, Bratislava...
- Kevin TrudeauKevin TrudeauKevin Mark Trudeau is an American author, radio personality, and infomercial salesman best known for promoting alternative medicine. A number of his television infomercials and several of his books, including Natural Cures "They" Don't Want You to Know About, allege that both the U.S...
- Joseph MercolaJoseph MercolaJoseph M. Mercola is a controversial physician, health activist, and entrepreneur practicing in Hoffman Estates, Illinois. He is the author of several books including The No-Grain Diet , and The Great Bird Flu Hoax...
Early anti-vaccinationists (c. 1850-1910)
- Charles CreightonCharles CreightonCharles Creighton was a British physician and medical author. He was highly regarded for his scholarly writings on medical history but was widely denounced for disputing the germ theory of infectious diseases....
- William TebbWilliam TebbWilliam Tebb was a British businessman and wide-ranging social reformer, particularly known as a anti-vaccinationist and author of anti-vaccination books....
- William Job CollinsWilliam Job CollinsSir William Job Collins KCVO was a surgeon and later a Liberal politician and legislator.-Background:...
- Edgar CrookshankEdgar CrookshankEdgar March Crookshank was an English physician and microbiologist.- Biography :Crookshank studied at King's College London and qualified for medicine in 1881. He served briefly as an assistant to Joseph Lister, a physician noted for his work promoting antiseptics and sterile surgery...
- Walter HadwenWalter HadwenWalter Robert Hadwen MD MRCS MRCP was a Gloucester GP and pharmaceutical chemist, president of the British Union for the Abolition of Vivisection , and an anti-vaccination campaigner known for his denial of the germ theory of disease.-Biography:Hadwen began his career as a pharmacist in Clapham...
- Charles Thomas Pearce
- John Pitcairn, Jr.John Pitcairn, Jr.John Pitcairn, Jr. was a Scottish-born American industrialist. With just an elementary school education, Pitcairn rose through the ranks of the Pennsylvania railroad industry, and played a significant role in the creation of the modern oil and natural gas industries...