These are 10 people who literally saved millions of lives.

These are 10 people who literally saved millions of lives.

10- ALAN TURING:

 A man that may be considered to be the father of the modern computer. Alan Turing was a brilliant English mathematician and scientist who worked as part of a secret code cracking team at Bletchley Park in England during World War II. It was his tireless efforts that allowed the allies to crack the Enigma Code of the Nazis by doing so the allies were more quickly able to defeat Nazi Germany and thereby save millions of lives during simply never gave up and millions can thank him for that.

9- JOSEPH LISTER:

An English surgeon has no doubt cost millions of lives to be saved during surgery. Joseph Lister was up all the high levels of death occurring on surgery tables in the mid-1800s. He was convinced that these deaths were due to the terrible hygiene being practiced by surgeons. He chose to sterilize all his surgical instruments and hands at all times and immediately not as patients died. His work was contributed greatly to the germ theory of disease as we know it today. Surgery is now so much safer all thanks to Joseph Lister and his obsession with clean hands.

8- KARL LANDSTEINER:

The man that made blood transfusion safe for millions of people. Karl Landsteiner was an Austrian biologist and physician who understood that people could not just have anyone's blood transfused into the body. It was thanks to his identification of the different blood groups in the 1900s that people ever since has been able to get blood transfusions for that endangering their lives. He was also the co-founder of the polio virus. No wonder Landsteiner won the Nobel Peace Prize for medicine in 1930.

7- ALEXANDER FLEMING:

The man who made antibiotics possible. The Scottish biologist Alexander Fleming may have been messy in his laboratory but it's thanks to that messiness that he was able to discover that certain bacteria cultures were being destroyed by fungus. Penicillin have been discovered and with antibiotics that almost overnight cure previously terrible diseases such as meningitis, diphtheria and pneumonia. Millions of lives have since been saved. All thanks to a brilliant scientist and his messy lab.

6-FRANCES OLDHAM KELSEY:

 A remarkable women. She was the drug researcher assigned by the food and drug administration the FDA in 1962 to review a new drug called thalidomide. She refused to approve the drug on patient safety grounds, however other countries allow the morning sickness drug for pregnant women that resulted in thousands of deformed babies being born worldwide except in the United States. Kelsey’s uncompromising efforts regarding drug reviews before the Norg and has subsequently saved millions of lives.

5-HENRIETTA LACKS:

She was just an ordinary woman who died of cervical cancer in a Baltimore hospital in 1951 age just 31. Researchers immediately used her cells to create the hela cell line which would be the first immortalized cell line that can reproduce indefinitely under certain conditions. The hela cell line named in honor of Henrietta Lacks continues to be invaluable in medical research to this day, sad is that Lacks would never get to know just how many lives she help saved.

4- NILS BOHLIN:

A Swedish engineer and inventor. He is the man given credit for having invented the car safety belt as we know them today. It was while working for Swedish car maker Volvo that Bohlin worked in design for a fire improved safety belt that design would become the three point harness that allows no part of the body receive the full force of a crash. He also designed the safety dock to be in the side of the person rather than across their chest. Auto safety experts agree that Bohlin’s revolutionary seatbelt design has probably save tens of millions of lives to this day.

3-ALEXEI ANANENKO, VALERI BEZPALOV AND BORIS BARANOV:

Three men whose bravery alone is inspiring. The 1986 fire at the Chernobyl nuclear power station in the former Soviet Union was the worst nuclear related disaster to date. In order to avert a meltdown the nuclear reactor had to be flooded, however the water eventually needed to be drained. Unfortunately only humans could do the task. The three Soviet men who volunteered were Alexei Ananenko, Valeri Bezapalov and Boris Baranov. And they literally had to swim in radioactive sludge in order to drain the reactor. The three men died within 2 weeks from the extreme radiation and millions of lives were saved across Europe.

2-JAMES HARRISON:

An ordinary Australian with an extraordinary contribution to modern medicine. It turns out that Harrison's blood is extremely rare in that it has the antibody to rhesus disease. A once deadly disease that killed thousands of children every year. Today a pregnant woman can have an Rh test and if positive, she is given a shot of antibodies from Harrison’s blood and her baby thus protected. Harrison has done over 1000 blood donations to date and over 2 billion babies have been saved.

1-STANISLAV PETROV:

 

On September 26^th, 1983 a single man prevent the Outbreak of nuclear war. The extraordinary man was Stanislav Petrov. A Russian lieutenant corporal in the Soviet army who was in charge of early detection warning systems. On that day the system shows that several US missiles were on their way to the USSR. Petrov refused to believe the data and didn't report it to his superiors. It turns out it was indeed a glitch in the system and the false alarms. Petrov single handedly averted the third world war that is why he is known as the man who saved the world that is also why he is at number one.