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« on: December 26, 2023, 06:38:02 PM » |
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NON-political figures who were basically only good for the world, creating ripples that brought inspiration and hope to others and/or a markedly positive impact on the world even if not well-known?
* Archimedes
* Aeschylus
* Socrates
* Plato
* Aristotle
* Leonardo da Vinci
* William Shakespeare
* Isaac Newton
* Charles Darwin
* Leo Tolstoy (Russian author, pacifist, Christian anarchist, helped inspire figures like Gandhi, Martin Luther King Jr, Nelson Mandela, Henry David Thoreau, James Joyce, Victor Hugo, Virgnia Woolf, Charles Dickens)
* Joseph Lister (introduced use of antiseptics and handwashing in medicine)
* Edward Jenner (smallpox vaccine)
* Alexander Fleming (discovered use of a superior antiseptic, and invented penicillin)
* Jonas Salk (polio vaccine)
* Marie Curie (the theory of radioactivity in physics, and the use of radiation in medicine to fight cancer)
* Norman Borlaug (founder of the green revolution in 20th century agriculture)
* Albert Einstein
* JRR Tolkien
* the Beatles
* Princess Diana
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