Who saved the most lives in history?
09 Jan 2015 Leave a comment
in health economics, technological progress
| Over 1 Billion | ||
|
Scientist |
Lives Saved |
|
| 1 |
Fritz Haber |
2,720,000,000 |
|
2 |
Carl Bosch |
2,720,000,000 |
|
3 |
Karl Landsteiner |
1,094,000,000 |
|
4 |
Richard Lewisohn |
1,094,000,000 |
|
|
||
|
Scientist |
Lives Saved |
|
|
5 |
Edward Jenner |
530,000,000 |
|
6 |
Norman Borlaug |
259,000,000 |
|
7 |
Linn Enslow |
177,000,000 |
|
8 |
Abel Wolman |
177,000,000 |
|
9 |
William Foege |
131,000,000 |
|
10 |
Leslie Collier |
131,000,000 |
|
11 |
Benjamin Rubin |
131,000,000 |
|
12 |
Aaron Ismach |
131,000,000 |
|
13 |
John Enders |
120,000,000 |
|
14 |
Maurice Hilleman |
118,000,000 |
|
15 |
Ann Holloway |
118,000,000 |
|
16 |
Samuel Katz |
118,000,000 |
|
17 |
Kevin McCarthy |
118,000,000 |
|
18 |
Milan Milovanovic |
118,000,000 |
|
19 |
Anna Mitus |
118,000,000 |
|
20 |
Thomas Peebles |
118,000,000 |
|
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|
Scientist |
Lives Saved |
|
|
21 |
Howard Florey |
82,000,000 |
|
22 |
Ernst Chain |
82,000,000 |
|
23 |
Norman Heatley |
82,000,000 |
|
24 |
Alexander Fleming |
82,000,000 |
|
25 |
Gaston Ramon |
60,000,000 |
|
26 |
David Nalin |
54,000,000 |
|
27 |
Richard Cash |
54,000,000 |
|
28 |
Norbert Hirschhorn |
54,000,000 |
|
29 |
Robert Phillips |
54,000,000 |
|
30 |
David Sachar |
54,000,000 |
|
31 |
Christian Zoeller |
52,000,000 |
|
|
||
|
Scientist |
Lives Saved |
|
|
32 |
Paul Ehrlich |
42,000,000 |
|
33 |
Shibasaburo Kitasato |
42,000,000 |
|
34 |
Emil von Behring |
42,000,000 |
|
35 |
Paul Muller |
21,200,000 |
|
36 |
Frederick Banting |
16,400,000 |
|
37 |
Charles Best |
16,400,000 |
|
38 |
John Macleod |
16,400,000 |
|
39 |
James “Bert” Collip |
16,400,000 |
|
|
||
|
Scientist |
Lives Saved |
|
|
40 |
Andreas Gruentzig |
15,400,000 |
|
41 |
Pearl Kendrick |
13,700,000 |
|
42 |
Grace Eldering |
13,700,000 |
|
43 |
Belding Scribner |
8,595,000 |
|
44 |
Willem Kolff |
8,595,000 |
|
45 |
Wilson Greatbatch |
8,305,000 |
|
46 |
Karel Styblo |
7,370,000 |
|
47 |
Alfred Sommer |
7,124,000 |
|
48 |
Baruch Blumberg |
6,335,000 |
|
49 |
Irving Millman |
6,335,000 |
|
50 |
Kenneth Murray |
6,335,000 |
|
51 |
Georgios Papanikolou |
6,307,000 |
|
52 |
Aurel Babes |
6,307,000 |
|
53 |
Herbert Traut |
6,307,000 |
|
54 |
Akira Endo |
5,868,000 |
|
55 |
Gertrude Elion |
5,438,000 |
|
56 |
George Hitchings |
5,438,000 |
|
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||
|
Scientist |
Lives Saved |
|
|
57 |
James Elam |
4,760,000 |
|
58 |
James Jude |
4,760,000 |
|
59 |
G. Guy Knickerbocker |
4,760,000 |
|
60 |
William Kouwenhoven |
4,760,000 |
|
61 |
Peter Safar |
4,760,000 |
|
62 |
James Black |
3,350,000 |
|
63 |
Vasilii Kolesov |
2,610,000 |
|
64 |
Vladimir Demikhov |
2,610,000 |
|
65 |
Luc Montagnier |
2,370,000 |
|
66 |
Françoise Barré-Sinoussi |
2,370,000 |
|
67 |
Bernard Belleau |
2,370,000 |
|
68 |
Gervais Dionne |
2,370,000 |
|
69 |
Francesco Bellini |
2,370,000 |
|
70 |
Nghe Nguyen-Ga |
2,370,000 |
|
71 |
Andre Briend |
2,320,000 |
|
72 |
Stafford Warren |
1,670,000 |
|
73 |
Jacob Gershon-Cohen |
1,670,000 |
|
74 |
Raul Leborgne |
1,670,000 |
|
75 |
Charles Gros |
1,670,000 |
|
76 |
Walter Vogel |
1,670,000 |
|
77 |
Albert Salomon |
1,670,000 |
|
78 |
Nils Bohlin |
1,330,000 |
|
79 |
Lawrence Craven |
1,130,000 |
|
80 |
Paul Gibson |
1,130,000 |
|
81 |
Charles Hennekens |
1,130,000 |
|
82 |
Thomas Francis, Jr. |
1,010,000 |
|
83 |
Jonas Salk |
1,010,000 |
|
84 |
Albert Sabin |
1,010,000 |
|
85 |
Frederick Robbins |
1,000,000 |
|
86 |
Thomas Weller |
1,010,000 |
|
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||
|
Scientist |
Lives Saved |
|
|
87 |
Mary Ellen Avery |
840,000 |
|
88 |
John Clements |
840,000 |
|
89 |
Tetsuro Fujiwara |
840,000 |
|
90 |
Ancel Keys |
820,000 |
|
91 |
Porter Anderson |
660,000 |
|
92 |
David Smith |
660,000 |
|
93 |
John Robbins |
660,000 |
|
94 |
Rachel Schneerson |
660,000 |
|
95 |
Alexander Wiener |
520,000 |
|
96 |
Ronald Finn |
520,000 |
|
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||
|
Scientist |
Lives Saved |
|
|
97 |
Max Theiler |
300,000 |
|
98 |
Samuel Kountz |
227,000 |
|
99 |
Alfred Blalock |
169,000 |
|
100 |
Vivien Thomas |
169,000 |
|
101 |
Brian Druker |
153,000 |
|
102 |
Nicholas Lydon |
153,000 |
|
103 |
Henry Heimlich |
50,000 |
|
104 |
Patrick, Edward |
50,000 |
|
|
||
|
105 |
Charles Sawyers |
11,000 |
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