8 people who have made this world a better place

Simple and amazing stories of real heroes. Their names must know kazhdyy.Istoriya know a huge number of people who have made outstanding deeds and discoveries, but it went unnoticed.

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The history of Constantine Paustovskogo



"It was spring of 1912, before the exams in the garden was arranged gathering. It called together all the high school students in our class, except the Jews. The Jews of this gathering nothing should have known.

At the gathering it was decided that the best students of the Russian and Polish have the exams for at least one object to grab the four not to get the gold medal. We decided to give all the gold medals Jews. Without these medals they did not take the university.

We are sworn to keep this decision secret. To the credit of our class, we can not let slip about it then or after, when they were already university students. Now I break this oath, because almost none of my comrades in the gymnasium remained alive. Most of them died in the Great War, my generation experienced. It survived only a few people ».




A world without nuclear voyny



September 26, 1983 Lieutenant Colonel Stanislav Petrov
The alarm sounded at a sensitive time, relations between the USSR and the US were strained, but Peter thought it was false and refused to take any retaliatory measures. He thus prevent the possibility of a nuclear catastrophe - the signal was indeed false.







Vasily Arkhipov
The commander of the submarine, Valentin Savitsky, prepared to launch a nuclear torpedo response. However, a senior on board Arkhipov show restraint, drew attention to the signals from the American ships and stopped Savitsky. From a boat was sent a signal "Stop provocation", after which the US military forces have been withdrawn, and the situation has eased.

Man with golden rukoy



In thirteen years the Australian James Harrison
Once Harrison reached the required age to donate blood, he immediately came to the point of putting the blood of the Red Cross. There also revealed that his blood is unique in its kind, since its plasma contains special antibodies that help you prevent Rhesus conflict pregnant mother to her fetus. Without these antibodies Rh conflict leads at least to anemia and jaundice child, to a maximum of stillbirth.

When James was told that it was found in his blood, he asked only one question. He asked how frequently you can give blood.
Since then, every three weeks, James Harrison comes to a medical center near his home, and rents exactly 400 milliliters of blood. By the present moment, he passed for about 377 liters of blood.
During the 56 years since their first date, he has donated blood and blood components is almost 1,000 times and saved about 2 million children and young mothers.

Polish Shindler



Eugene Lazovsky
The Germans were afraid of typhus, because it was very contagious. At a time when Jews infected with typhus, usually executed, Lazovsky planted non-Jewish population in the neighborhoods surrounding the ghetto, near the town of Rozvadov. He knew that the Germans would be forced to give up in order to get close to the Jewish settlements, and in the end they just shut down this area in quarantine. This saved about 8,000 Polish Jews from certain death in the concentration camps.



The scientist who saved millions of lives





American biologist Maurice Ralph Hilleman
In addition, Hilleman was the first person to determine how the flu virus mutates. Almost single-handedly, he worked on a vaccine that prevented the Asian flu outbreak in 1957 to become a repeat of the Spanish pandemic of 1918 that destroyed 20 million people worldwide.

Donor immortal kletok



African-American Henrietta Lacks
In 1954, a strain of HeLa cells was used Jonas Juice to develop a vaccine against polio. In 1955, the HeLa became the first successfully cloned human cells. Demand for these cells grew rapidly. They were launched in series production and sent to scientists around the world for the study of cancer, AIDS, the effects of radiation and other diseases. Now scientists have grown about 20 tons of Henrietta's cells, there are nearly 11,000 patents related to them.

Inventor belt bezopasnosti



July 10, 1962 an employee of the corporation Volvo Nils Bohlin
The corporation did design belt free for other automakers, and he soon became a global standard. According to recent studies, the invention Bolin during its existence has saved a million lives.



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