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• Edward Jenner was an English physician and scientist.
• He discovered the first vaccine for smallpox in 1796.
• He observed that milkmaids infected with cowpox were protected from smallpox.
• This led to the development of vaccination (cowpox-based immunity method).
• He is known as the Father of Immunology.

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• Polio Vaccines: Developed to prevent poliomyelitis, a viral disease causing paralysis.
• Jonas Salk (US, 1950s): Created the first inactivated (killed) polio vaccine; tested on himself and family in 1953; officially used in 1955.
• Albert Sabin (1961): Developed the live attenuated (weakened) oral polio vaccine.
• Recent Campaigns: Israel launched a polio vaccine drive in April 2022 after 1988 efforts.

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• Isaac Newton (1642–1727) was an English physicist and mathematician.
• He formulated the laws of motion and law of universal gravitation.
• His work laid the foundation for classical mechanics.

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Samuel Hahnemann

• Birth: 1755
• Death: 1843
• Country: Germany
• Principle: “Similia similibus curentur” (like cures like)
• Famous work: Organon of Medicine

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• Albert Einstein received the Nobel Prize for his discovery of the Law of the photoelectric effect
• The 1921 prize was actually awarded in 1922.

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• The telescope was first used for astronomical observations in the early 17th century.
• Galileo Galilei first used an improved telescope in 1609 to observe planets like Jupiter, Saturn, and Venus.
• He discovered four large moons of Jupiter (Io, Europa, Ganymede, and Callisto).

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• A Telescope is an optical instrument used to observe distant objects such as stars, planets, and galaxies.
• It collects and magnifies light or other forms of electromagnetic radiation.
• The term “telescope” was coined in 1611 by the Greek mathematician Giovanni Demisiani.

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The Nobel Prize for the discovery of the electron was awarded to J. J. Thomson in 1906.

He received the Nobel Prize in Physics for his investigations into the conduction of electricity in gases, which led to the discovery of the electron in 1897.

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Antonie van Leeuwenhoek first observed yeast cells using his single-lens microscope in 1680. 

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Carolus Linnaeus  was a Swedish botanist,

He is widely recognized as the "Father of Taxonomy".

In the 18th century, he published his seminal work, Systema Naturae, in which he introduced a formal, hierarchical system for classifying and naming living organisms.