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Scientist

Lives Saved

Fritz Haber
(Synthetic Fertilizer)

2,720,000,000 

2 

Carl Bosch
(Synthetic Fertilizer)

2,720,000,000 

3 

Karl Landsteiner
(Blood Groups)

1,094,000,000

4 

Richard Lewisohn
(Blood Transfusions)

1,094,000,000

Over 100 Million

Scientist

Lives Saved

5 

Edward Jenner
(Vaccination – Smallpox)

530,000,000 

6 

Norman Borlaug
(Green Revolution – Wheat)

259,000,000

7 

Linn Enslow
(Chlorination of Water)

177,000,000

8 

Abel Wolman
(Chlorination of Water)

177,000,000

9 

William Foege
(Vaccination Method – Smallpox Eradication)

131,000,000

10 

Leslie Collier
(Freeze-dried Vaccine -Smallpox Eradication)

131,000,000

11 

Benjamin Rubin
(Bifurcated Needle -Smallpox Eradication)

131,000,000

12 

Aaron Ismach
(Jet Injector Gun -Smallpox Eradication)

131,000,000

13 

John Enders
(Polio & Measles Vaccine)

120,000,000

14 

Maurice Hilleman
(Measles Vaccine)

118,000,000

15 

Ann Holloway
(Measles Vaccine)

118,000,000

16 

Samuel Katz
(Measles Vaccine)

118,000,000

17 

Kevin McCarthy
(Measles Vaccine)

118,000,000

18 

Milan Milovanovic
(Measles Vaccine)

118,000,000

19 

Anna Mitus
(Measles Vaccine)

118,000,000

20 

Thomas Peebles
(Measles Vaccine)

118,000,000

Over 50 Million

Scientist

Lives Saved

21 

Howard Florey
(Penicillin Drug)

82,000,000

22 

Ernst Chain
(Penicillin Drug)

82,000,000

23 

Norman Heatley
(Penicillin Drug)

82,000,000

24 

Alexander Fleming
(Penicillin Mold)

82,000,000

25 

Gaston Ramon
(Diphtheria and Tetanus Vaccine)

60,000,000

26 

David Nalin
(Oral Rehydration Therapy)

54,000,000

27 

Richard Cash
(Oral Rehydration Therapy)

54,000,000

28 

Norbert Hirschhorn
(Oral Rehydration Therapy)

54,000,000

29 

Robert Phillips
(Oral Rehydration Therapy)

54,000,000

30 

David Sachar
(Oral Rehydration Therapy)

54,000,000

31 

Christian Zoeller
(Tetanus Vaccine)

52,000,000

Over 15 Million

Scientist

Lives Saved

32 

Paul Ehrlich
(Diphtheria and TetanusAntitoxin)

42,000,000

33 

Shibasaburo Kitasato
(Diphtheria and TetanusAntitoxin)

42,000,000

34 

Emil von Behring
(Diphtheria and TetanusAntitoxin)

42,000,000

35 

Paul Muller
(DDT)

21,200,000

36 

Frederick Banting
(Insulin)

16,400,000

37

Charles Best
(Insulin)

16,400,000

38 

John Macleod
(Insulin)

16,400,000

39 

James “Bert” Collip
(Insulin)

16,400,000

Over 5 Million

Scientist

Lives Saved

40 

Andreas Gruentzig
(Angioplasty)

15,400,000

41 

Pearl Kendrick
(Whooping Cough Vaccine)

13,700,000

42 

Grace Eldering
(Whooping CoughVaccine)

13,700,000

43 

Belding Scribner
(Scribner Shunt)

8,595,000

44 

Willem Kolff
(Kidney Dialysis)

8,595,000

45 

Wilson Greatbatch
(Pacemaker)

8,305,000

46 

Karel Styblo
(TB & AIDS Treatment)

7,370,000

47 

Alfred Sommer
(Vitamin A Therapy)

7,124,000

48 

Baruch Blumberg
(Hepatitis B Vaccine)

6,335,000

49 

Irving Millman
(Hepatitis B Vaccine)

6,335,000

50 

Kenneth Murray
(Hepatitis B Vaccine)

6,335,000

51 

Georgios Papanikolou
(Cervical Cancer Screening)

6,307,000

52 

Aurel Babes
(Cervical Cancer Screening)

6,307,000

53 

Herbert Traut
(Cervical Cancer Screening)

6,307,000

54 

Akira Endo
(Statin Drugs)

5,868,000

55 

Gertrude Elion
(Rational Drug Design)

5,438,000

56 

George Hitchings
(Rational Drug Design)

5,438,000

Over 1 Million

Scientist

Lives Saved

57 

James Elam
(CPR)

4,760,000

58 

James Jude
(CPR)

4,760,000

59 

G. Guy Knickerbocker
(CPR)

4,760,000

60 

William Kouwenhoven
(CPR)

4,760,000

61 

Peter Safar
(CPR)

4,760,000

62 

James Black
(Beta Blockers)

3,350,000

63 

Vasilii Kolesov
(Bypass Surgery)

2,610,000

64 

Vladimir Demikhov
(Bypass Surgery)

2,610,000

65 

Luc Montagnier
(HIV Blood Test)

2,370,000

66 

Françoise Barré-Sinoussi
(Isolated AIDS Virus)

2,370,000

67 

Bernard Belleau
(New AIDS Drug)

2,370,000

68 

Gervais Dionne
(New AIDS Drug)

2,370,000

69 

Francesco Bellini
(New AIDS Drug)

2,370,000

70 

Nghe Nguyen-Ga
(New AIDS Drug)

2,370,000

71 

Andre Briend
(Plumpy’nut to Fight Malnutrition)

2,320,000

72 

Stafford Warren
(Mammogram)

1,670,000

73 

Jacob Gershon-Cohen
(Mammogram)

1,670,000

74 

Raul Leborgne
(Mammogram)

1,670,000

75 

Charles Gros
(Mammogram)

1,670,000

76 

Walter Vogel
(Mammogram)

1,670,000

77 

Albert Salomon
(Mammogram)

1,670,000

78 

Nils Bohlin
(Improved Seatbelt)

1,330,000

79 

Lawrence Craven
(Aspirin Therapy for Heart Disease)

1,130,000

80 

Paul Gibson
(Aspirin Therapy for Heart Disease)

1,130,000

81 

Charles Hennekens
(Aspirin Therapy for Heart Disease)

1,130,000

82 

Thomas Francis, Jr.
(Flu Vaccine)

1,010,000

83 

Jonas Salk
(Polio Vaccine)

1,010,000

84 

Albert Sabin
(Polio Vaccine)

1,010,000

85 

Frederick Robbins
(Polio Vaccine)

1,000,000

86 

Thomas Weller
(Polio Vaccine)

1,010,000

Over 500 Thousand

Scientist

Lives Saved

87 

Mary Ellen Avery
(Infant SurfactantTherapy)

840,000

88 

John Clements
(Infant SurfactantTherapy)

840,000

89 

Tetsuro Fujiwara
(Infant SurfactantTherapy)

840,000

90 

Ancel Keys
(Linked Cholesterol & Diet)

820,000

91 

Porter Anderson
(Hib Vaccine)

660,000

92 

David Smith
(Hib Vaccine)

660,000

93 

John Robbins
(Hib Vaccine)

660,000

94 

Rachel Schneerson
(Hib Vaccine)

660,000

95 

Alexander Wiener
(Rh Blood Factor & Infant Exchange Transfusion)

520,000

96 

Ronald Finn
(Haemolytic Disease)

520,000

Over 50 Thousand

Scientist

Lives Saved

97 

Max Theiler
(Yellow Fever Vaccine)

300,000

98 

Samuel Kountz
(Kidney Transplants)

227,000

99 

Alfred Blalock
(Blue Baby Syndrome Surgery)

169,000

100 

Vivien Thomas
(Blue Baby Syndrome Surgery)

169,000

101 

Brian Druker
(Leukemia Drug Gleevec)

153,000

102 

Nicholas Lydon
(Leukemia Drug Gleevec)

153,000

103 

Henry Heimlich
(Heimlich Maneuver)

50,000

104 

Patrick, Edward
(Heimlich Maneuver)

50,000

Over 10 Thousand

105 

Charles Sawyers
(Leukemia Drug Sprycel)

11,000