The Greats the World Forgot: The Person Behind the Curtain Who Changed the World Forever

The Greats the World Forgot: The Person Behind the Curtain Who Changed the World Forever

1. "The Woman Who Photographed the World's First DNA Structure" (Rosalind Franklin - UK):

Rosalind Franklin, a forensic biologist and X-ray crystallographer who took "Photo 51," the most obvious photo of DNA double-strand structure in history, but this invaluable work was secretly taken by colleagues to James Watson and Francis Crick, so that they both referenced and won the Nobel Prize, and she died of cancer before being honored and was forgotten by one of the most important pages of scientific discovery.

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2. "Father of the Immune System, who was sent to an insane asylum" (Ignaz Semmelweis - Hungary):

Ignaz Semmelves, a Hungarian physician, discovered that maternal mortality after birth fell hugely if doctors "washed their hands with bleach" before giving birth, but in an age when no one knew the bacteria, the majority of doctors saw his theory as negative and strongly rejected the idea that he was squeezed into depression by a society of physicians, sent to a psychiatric hospital, physically attacked and died of infectious wounds, which is the same thing he had tried to warn others about all his life.

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3. "Heroes who saved millions of lives from biological warfare" (Maurice Hilleman - USA):

Morris Hilleman, an American microbiologist and vaccine developer who invented and developed more than 40 vaccines in his life - measles, mumps, rubella, hepatitis A and B - including influenza. Scientists estimate that his vaccine portfolio saves more than 8 to 10 million lives worldwide per year, but his name has never been remembered as a global figure compared to another scientist who saved one of the most lives in history.

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4. "Female slaves who decipher and rescue hundreds of slaves" (Harriet Tubman - United States):

Hatriet Tubman, a woman of color who was born into a slave state but managed to successfully escape to honesty and freedom, then decided to risk her life traveling back into the land under the pass through the secret route network "Underground Railroad" more than 13 times to help free hundreds of other slaves and their families. She was also the first woman to lead a military force in the American Civil War, but instead spent her final days destitute and almost impersonal.

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5. "The man who stopped the disease and cured millions of lives in the ghetto" (Dr. Wu Lien-teh - Malay / China):

Doctor Wu Liande led the fight against the 1910 Manchuria "lung plague," which had a mortality rate of up to 100%. He was the discoverer that the disease spread by air, and the inventor of the world's first "multi-layer fabric health mask," which became the prototype of today's N95 mask. He was also the first Malaysian of Chinese descent to be nominated for the Nobel Prize in Medicine, but his name was unfortunately erased from the memory of the latter world.

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True greatness may not be measured in the number of monuments or awards they have won in history, but the result of what they have left to civilization, even though their names have been forgotten by time.

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