Werner Forssmann – the Nobel winner who performed the first human cardiac catheterization… on himself
The Ovitz family – A whole family of dwarfs who survived imprisonment at the Auschwitz concentration camp
France gave the daguerreotype photographic process as a free gift to the world except to Britain. They had to pay
While trying to catch serial killer Andrei Chikatilo, the Soviet police solved more than 1000 unrelated crimes
Frederick Banting discovered the insulin and turned down all offers from big corporations, saying that insulin was his gift to mankind