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Which single person has contributed most to the human race?

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  • #62
    Pompey Magnus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,406 ✭✭✭Pompey Magnus


    moe_sizlak wrote: »
    perhaps the guy who invented penicilin , whats his face

    This is his face.


  • #63
    Frankie Lee
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    Eamon De Valera


  • #64
    mobius42
    Closed Accounts Posts: 909 ✭✭✭mobius42


    I'd say either Edward Jenner or Louis Pasteur. Their work on disease treatment and vaccines has saved millions of lives.


  • #65
    slipss
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,025 ✭✭✭slipss


    Depeche_Mode wrote: »
    This is his face.

    Nope, Fleming was another rip off merchant I'm afraid, he didn't discover it, just popuralised it i.e did none of the work but took all the credit.

    (ok I'll stop now)


  • #66
    Agamemnon
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    Heather Graham


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  • #67
    keane2097
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    IvaBigWun wrote: »
    Which single person has contributed most to the human race?

    ....

    Watson & Crick?

    Fail imo.


  • #68
    Davidius
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    I like to think I've contributed a lot to humanity.

    Yeah, I'm great.


  • #69
    kowloon
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    I was going to say Barry Scott but according to Time magazine, who publish a list of the most influential people of the twentieth century, it's Albert Einstein with the runners up being Roosevelt and Ghandi. They change the list every year with Oprah holding the record for being in the list six times.

    So I'll have to go with Heather Graham.


  • #70
    Quazzie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 30,161 ✭✭✭✭Quazzie


    James Bond Jr. FTW

    He chased S.C.U.M around the world


  • #71
    RonMexico
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    Captain Birdseye


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  • #72
    neaideabh
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 534 ✭✭✭neaideabh


    OK... the lads who invented the wheel. That did not just pave the way for the Audi A5 but mechanisms that are used to manufacture items of high value such as life saving drugs... and other things i can't think of!


  • #73
    xOxSinéadxOx
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,604 ✭✭✭xOxSinéadxOx


    RonMexico wrote: »
    Captain Birdseye

    + 1,000,000


  • #74
    Pride Fighter
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,729 ✭✭✭Pride Fighter


    Morlar wrote: »
    He found out how to use fire too - v handy he was.

    Prometheus?


  • #75
    [Deleted User]
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    Eve?








    **B!ue ducks and runs!**


  • #76
    [Deleted User]
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    Thomas Newcomen
    Invented the steam engine, without which modern life as we know it wouldn't exist


  • #77
    FruitLover
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    Chuck Norris


    obviously


  • #78
    electric69
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 794 ✭✭✭electric69


    Jeebus


  • #79
    Rovi
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,569 ✭✭✭Rovi


    Thomas Midgley


  • #80
    Sir Digby Chicken Caesar
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    milton friedman

    give him time :)


  • #81
    Time Magazine
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    Thomas Malthus.


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  • #82
    The_Minister
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    Antithetic wrote: »
    Thomas Malthus.
    Oooooooooooooooooooooooooooh!
    Controversial!


  • #83
    Time Magazine
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,452 ✭✭✭Time Magazine


    His laissez-faire policies exacerbated the famine. That forced a million Irish to move to America. That would eventually turn America into the economic juggernaut it is today, inducing all of its inventions which, of course, includes the internet.


  • #84
    The_Minister
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,255 ✭✭✭✭The_Minister


    Aw, I thought that you were one of those who are begining to support his views:( (he seems to be becoming more popular recently)


  • #85
    Time Magazine
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    The_Minister wrote: »
    Aw, I thought that you were one of those who are begining to support his views:( (he seems to be becoming more popular recently)

    No, I'm trolling. D'uh. His views were/are ridiculous. Technological advancement FTW.


  • #86
    The_Minister
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,255 ✭✭✭✭The_Minister


    Antithetic wrote: »
    No, I'm trolling. D'uh. His views were/are ridiculous. Technological advancement FTW.
    You don't think that there is a limit to the expansion of food production? (I don't like his ideas, but I sometimes wonder if he wasn't just premature)


  • #87
    mikewest
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 911 ✭✭✭mikewest


    Johannes Gensfleisch zur Laden zum Gutenberg. His invention of moveable type printing paved the way for the last 600 years of improvements by allowing the rapid dissemenation of ideas and advances as well as allowing their storage for future study after the deaths of the originators of the ideas. Almost everything we can achieve today can be linked to his work because we all learn from printed books everywhere around the world. He may not be the greatest human who ever lived but his invention of movable type printing is the nexus for rapid and sustained human advancement.


  • #88
    daveharnett
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    I would say that Norman Borlaug is worth a mention here. I believe he is probably the biggest contributor who is (AFAIK) still alive. He is commonly credited with saving over a billion people from starvation.


  • #89
    ScumLord
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    I'd say Hitler too, if it wasn't for him we may not have the European Union, the UN or strict controls over the way the military invade a country. He was a bastard but good things came out of his madness.


  • #90
    ssmith6287
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,340 ✭✭✭ssmith6287


    HITLER defo, Evil bastard but if it wasnt for him wed be speaking with a cockney or scouser accent now


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  • #91
    hisroyalbadness
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    Go Darwin go!


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