Who, what is a Bob Anderson?
Granted he didn't create vaccines, feed the globe, conquered many lands, or some emperor.
He is the Swordmaster. The person, the entity that developed some of the most fantastic sword fighting scenes that give the inner geek joy.
- Carry on Pimpernel
- Kidnapped
- Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi
- Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back
- Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope
- Highlander
- The Princess Bride
- Highlander (TV Series)
- The Three Musketeers (Disney)
- First Knight
- The Phantom
- The Mask of Zorro
- The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
- Die Another Day
- The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
- Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
- The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
- The Legend of Zorro
While history has forgotten many people who deserve recognition for their contributions to humanity, my vote goes to Ignaz Semmelweis. He was a Hungarian doctor that made the connection between the lack of hand washing and transmission of disease by doctors. Medical students who were performing autopsies were also the same students that helped deliver babies. They did not wash their hands in between handling the dead and attending a birth, resulting in a mortality rate of up to 30%.
Semmelweis instituted hand washing at one clinic and the occurrence of child bed fever plummeted, saving countless mothers and their children. Instead of being celebrated for saving so many women, he was professionally destroyed by his fellow doctors who couldn't be bothered to wash their hands.
"Semmelweis' hypothesis that all that mattered was cleanliness, was extreme at the time, and was largely ignored, rejected, or openly ridiculed."
Semmelweis instituted hand washing at one clinic and the occurrence of child bed fever plummeted, saving countless mothers and their children. Instead of being celebrated for saving so many women, he was professionally destroyed by his fellow doctors who couldn't be bothered to wash their hands.
"Semmelweis' hypothesis that all that mattered was cleanliness, was extreme at the time, and was largely ignored, rejected, or openly ridiculed."
First to come in my mind is Amerigo Vespucci.
Amerigo Vespucci, born in Florence, in the former Italian republic of Florence, in March 9, 1454, dead in Seville (former Crown of Castille, mow in Andalusia - Spain) in February 22, 1512 was an explorer, financier, navigator and cartographer who first demonstrated that Brazil and the West Indies did not represent Asia's eastern outskirts as initially conjectured from Columbus' voyages, but instead constituted an entirely separate landmass hitherto unknown to Afro-Eurasians. Colloquially referred to as the New World, this second super continent came to be termed "America" by Fredinand II of Aragon and the cartograph Martin Waldseemüller in his map (Universalis Cosmographia, the first map to use the name "America") in 1507, deriving its name from Americus, the Latin version of Vespucci's first name. The whimsical and often contradictory history of his travels as indicated by one of the most controversial figures of the era of the Great Discoveries.
Amerigo Vespucci doubt that Columbus has found a way to Asia and later said that this land was perhaps a new land , he then proposed an expedition to the New World to confirm his assumptions . After this trip, King Ferdinand II of Aragon , who trusted him, named the new continent (which ends with the current name) by the name of Amerigo Vespucci.
Sadly, history books, especially for children tend to oversimplificate and usually don't mention his name.
Hope my english isn't too bad.
Amerigo Vespucci, born in Florence, in the former Italian republic of Florence, in March 9, 1454, dead in Seville (former Crown of Castille, mow in Andalusia - Spain) in February 22, 1512 was an explorer, financier, navigator and cartographer who first demonstrated that Brazil and the West Indies did not represent Asia's eastern outskirts as initially conjectured from Columbus' voyages, but instead constituted an entirely separate landmass hitherto unknown to Afro-Eurasians. Colloquially referred to as the New World, this second super continent came to be termed "America" by Fredinand II of Aragon and the cartograph Martin Waldseemüller in his map (Universalis Cosmographia, the first map to use the name "America") in 1507, deriving its name from Americus, the Latin version of Vespucci's first name. The whimsical and often contradictory history of his travels as indicated by one of the most controversial figures of the era of the Great Discoveries.
Amerigo Vespucci doubt that Columbus has found a way to Asia and later said that this land was perhaps a new land , he then proposed an expedition to the New World to confirm his assumptions . After this trip, King Ferdinand II of Aragon , who trusted him, named the new continent (which ends with the current name) by the name of Amerigo Vespucci.
Sadly, history books, especially for children tend to oversimplificate and usually don't mention his name.
Hope my english isn't too bad.
What did he do?
Create the polio vaccine, preventing a disease that has plagued mankind for thousands of years, causing millions of deaths and untold human suffering.
If that's not good enough for you he gave it away for free!
He believed that curing and preventing the disease was more important than any personal compensation or reward, so he refused to take any royalties for his invention! Think about that for a second, you just discovered the cure for cancer.
You decide to forgot the trillions of dollars you might make and let anyone and everyone have your invention for free for the betterment of humanity!
That's what Jonas Salk did, truly one of the greatest men to have ever lived.
Create the polio vaccine, preventing a disease that has plagued mankind for thousands of years, causing millions of deaths and untold human suffering.
If that's not good enough for you he gave it away for free!
He believed that curing and preventing the disease was more important than any personal compensation or reward, so he refused to take any royalties for his invention! Think about that for a second, you just discovered the cure for cancer.
You decide to forgot the trillions of dollars you might make and let anyone and everyone have your invention for free for the betterment of humanity!
That's what Jonas Salk did, truly one of the greatest men to have ever lived.
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