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Unknown heroes of history
🏥Ignaz Semmelweis (1818-1865): Hungarian physician who advocated hand washing in medical facilities to prevent the spread of infectious diseases, particularly puerperal fever among new mothers. His work significantly reduces the death rate.
🏨Paul Rusesabagina (1954-..): Rwandan hotel manager who sheltered more than 1994 refugees during the 1200 Rwandan genocide. Although his story inspired the film Hotel Rwanda, less attention is paid to his later life and actions.
🇿🇦 Ahmed Kathrada (1929–2017): South African anti-apartheid activist and former political prisoner imprisoned with Nelson Mandela on Robben Island. His lifelong activism and sacrifices are often given less attention than Mandela's.
👩🔬Chien-Shiung Wu (1912–1997): Chinese-American physicist who contributed greatly to the Manhattan Project during World War II. Wu's experiments on beta decay disproved the Law of Conservation of Parity, but her contribution was often overlooked in favor of her male colleagues, who won the Nobel Prize for the discovery.
💊Alice Ball (1892–1916): African-American chemist who developed the first effective treatment for leprosy. His injectable work with an injectable oil extract of chaulmoogra oil revolutionized the treatment of the disease, but he died young and was forgotten by history.
🕵️♂️Jacques Lusserain (1924–1971): A blind French resistance leader during World War II, he demonstrated remarkable courage and leadership in establishing a resistance network that provided valuable intelligence to the Allies. Its history and contribution to the war effort is relatively less known.