DRASTICALLY UNDERRATED PEOPLE IN HISTORY
Added on: 30th Jul 2016
JOHN HARINGTON
Thomas Crapper didn’t invent the flush toilet! John Harrington
had already invented it 250 years before Crapper ever
even came onto the scene.
CHIUNE SUGIHARA
A Japanese diplomat serving in Lithuania, he smuggled
numerous Jews out of the country during World War II
by issuing them transit visas to Japan.
CLAUDE SHANNON
If you use any device that communicates digitally with
another device, you can thank this guy.
WILLIS CARRIER
This is more relevant the closer you live to the equator.
Willis was the inventor of that oh-so-wonderful thing
we call air conditioning.
HENRIETTA LACKS
She died of cancer in 1951 and after researchers took samples
of her cells they found that they could make the cells
“immortal” by reproducing them indefinitely. Ever since then,
immortal cell lines have played a critical role in biomedical
research and Henrietta’s cells are used in labs all over the world.
CLAUDETTE COLVIN
She did almost exactly what Rosa Parks did, except a
little earlier. Unfortunately, however, she didn’t get credit
because she was single and pregnant.
NORMAN BORLAUG
Norman developed high-yield, disease resistant wheat
varieties in the mid 1900’s and then helped introduce them
to Mexico, Pakistan, and India. It is said that he helped save
nearly a billion people from starvation. Today this has
come to be known as the Green Revolution.
DENNIS RITCHIE
He developed the C programming language, which is
what your computer is running on right now. He died
the same week as Steve Jobs but got hardly any recognition.
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