People That Changed The World
Here is a list of people, that solely due to their sheer willpower, hard work and leadership qualities that help mankind develop over time...
Tim
Berners-Lee
The
World Wide Web
Tim Berners-Lee kick-started the World Wide Web in
1989, designing and building the first Web browser, editor and server. The
widely adopted technologies transformed the way information is created and
consumed.
Francis Crick, James Watson and Rosalind Franklin
Structure
of DNA
English-born
Francis Crick and his American colleague James Watson made one of the most
dazzling discoveries in the history of science in 1953 when they accurately
decoded the structure of the DNA molecule. They would not, however, have been
able to identify the twisted ladder shape of the DNA double helix without the
help of English scientist Rosalind Franklin’s X-ray images, which Watson saw
without her knowledge. Franklin, who exposed herself to dangerous levels of
radiation to get her X-ray images, died of cancer in 1958 at the age of 37. And
so it was her colleague, Maurice Wilkins, who shared the 1962 Nobel Prize for
medicine with Watson and Crick.
Mikhail Gorbachev
Ending
communism
After
becoming premier of the Soviet Union in 1985, Gorbachev championed “Glasnost”
(openness) and “Perestroika” (reform), which heralded the beginning of the end
of communism and the Cold War. But his first attempt at radical reform as
premier was an utter failure: he tried to stamp out alcoholism.
Jack Kilby and Robert Noyce
The
microchip
Kilby
and Noyce independently invented the single integrated circuit in 1959,
clearing one of the greatest obstacles to faster and more powerful computers.
The microchip heralded a revolution in technological miniaturization. Though
Kilby got there first and won the Nobel Prize, it was Noyce’s silicon-based chips
that caught on. Noyce co-founded Intel in 1968, and it is today the world’s
largest manufacturer of semiconductors. That same year, Kilby built the world’s
first personal calculator.
Paul
Lauterbur and Peter Mansfield
Magnetic
Resonance Imaging
Lauterbur and Mansfield won the Nobel Prize for
medicine in 2003 for the invention of magnetic resonance imaging. MRI
enable ssurgeons to see inside the body’s soft organs without
conducting invasive surgery or subjecting the patient to X-rays.
George
Lucas
Star
Wars
Filmmaker George Lucas founded Industrial Light and
Magic in 1975 to bring his vision of Star Warsto life.
ILM went on to revolutionize special effects in the movies, pioneering motion
control camera techniques and spearheading the computer-generated imaging
revolution in the 1980s. Perhaps more important, Lucas’ original trilogy of
movies redefined the economics of the movie industry.
The
shipping container
Shipping entrepreneur McLean had a great idea: It
would be much more efficient if dock cranes were able to pick up the entire
trailer part of a truck and place it onto a ship, rather than continue with the
hugely expensive and time-consuming method of loading (and unloading) a ship
crate by crate. His invention, the standardized shipping container, transformed
the global economy.
Gregory
Pincus, M.C. Chang, and John Rock
The
birth control pill
In 1953 Pincus and his colleague Min-Chueh Chang proved that hormones could prevent ovulation in animals. Similar work was being undertaken by Dr. John Rock at Harvard, and he and Pincus joined efforts to conduct human trials in 1956. In 1960, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved Enovid, the first contraceptive pill.
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