James Phipps was the first person given the experimental cowpox vaccine by Edward Jenner. Jenner knew of a local belief that dairy workers who had contracted a relatively mild infection called cowpox were immune to smallpox, and successfully tested his theory on the 8-years-old James Phipps on 17 May 1796.
- Occupation
- gardener, research participant
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
- Born
- 1788
- Died
- April 25, 1853
