Great men saved the world
These people are far from the world of Hollywood superhero, who hung with weapons and to deal with crowds of enemies.True bravery and courage can be invisible and no less valuable. We offer a selection of 7 heroic deeds selfless people who saved our world.Over 50 years of deaths during a crash prevents belt, invented by Swedish engineer, employee Volvo, Niels Bolin. On their offspring, he spent about a year and patented it only in 1962, and the first test of this device were made three years earlier.Today belt - a necessary condition for matching auto world standards. Recent studies have shown that the invention Bolin saved about one million lives.
Protect the earth from fire These words of the famous song of life have always been the motto soldier Stanislav Petrov Evgrafovich that at the height of the "cold war" to prevent a nuclear explosion. It happened on September 26, 1983. On this day, Colonel Petrov was operational duty at a secret facility while Serpukhov-15. He watched the Soviet satellite system. Around 24:00 the computer signaled the launch of ballistic missiles with 5 American base.
Petrov was seriously scared. But he took himself in hand and analyzed the situation, he came to the conclusion that the system worked by accident and did not react. These conclusions were based on the fact that "starts" were produced from a single point and consisted of only a few ICBMs. Yet he reported this to management, who finished searching about what happened. The investigation led to such results: operation of sensors was due to their "blindness" sunlight reflected clouds. This allowed refitted GLONASS devices to continue to avoid such a situation.
Twice saved the world from nuclear war and Vasili Alexandrovich Arkhipov, who served on a submarine during the Cuban missile crisis. Replacing the commander on the K-19 during nuclear boats plying in the north, between the Greenland and Norwegian seas, July 4, 1961 by boat accident in which the elimination of Vasily Arkhipov and actively participated, receiving a serious dose.
In October 1962 he prevented the launch of a nuclear torpedo. On board the boat had nuclear weapons, but how to apply it, not given clear guidelines. The only argument served spetsprikaz from Moscow and in the case of damage to boats in the attack.And near Cuba Soviet submarine B-59 surrounded eleven American destroyers and aircraft carriers "Randolph" who applied against our depth bombs to make them rise from the depths. Commander of the submarine, Valentin Savitsky wanted to run reciprocal nuclear torpedo, a senior on board Vasily Arkhipov stopped Savitsky, advised to send the signal to cease provocations. When American leaders took this message, "enemy" military forces were withdrawn, and the situation has eased.On the day of the fortieth anniversary of the Cuban Missile Crisis, October 13, 2002, at a conference in Havana, Thomas Blanton of George Washington University, said that "a guy by the name of Arkhipov saved the world."
Avenue of the righteous in the Israeli Yad Vashem
Polish Schindler called Eugene Lazovskaja, the doctor who saved thousands of Jews during the Holocaust. Simulate dangerous infectious disease outbreak in the ghetto with the help of vaccination Lazovskaja prevented shipment of Jews from the area in a concentration camp. Fastidious Germans, fearing infection, afraid to approach this place and closed the ghetto in quarantine.About 8000 Jews were saved from the gas chambers and crematoria.
"The Man with the Golden Arm" - so called donor plasma Australian James Harrison. As a teenager seriously ill and moving a number of complex operations on the chest, he was rescued just donated blood, which is poured 13 liters of it in total. Since then, the boy vowed that at age 18 he would be a voluntary donor. Harrison's blood is truly unique in its plasma were found blocking antibodies to Rh factor in pregnancy, saving unborn fetus from jaundice and bestowing his life. Every three weeks, this 78-year-old (!) Man regularly delivers 400 milliliters of blood. For 60 years, this figure has increased in 1000. Thus James Harrison saved 2 million young mothers and their babies.
From terrible diseases saved the world American microbiologist Maurice Ralph Hilleman, who devoted his life to developing vaccines 36. 8 of its products are used in our day. Worldwide population vaccinated against measles, meningitis, chicken pox, hepatitis A and B. Its flu vaccine, raging in 1957, saved the lives of 20 million people in various countries.
Thanks cell donation African American Henrietta Lacks scientists cloned the healthy stuff for humanity. Young woman ruined cancer, but bequeathed his body medicine, she has immortalized his name through the ages. On the basis of her body healthy cells cultivated real instruments eternity. HeLa cells were further served to develop a vaccine against polio, and today they are used in medicines for AIDS, cancer, radiation injuries.
