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The unknown graduate student/post-doc that sits in a lab all night working on seemingly benign research projects who pours his life into something that eventually changes the world, without the majority of the world ever knowing who that person is.
There are a lot of things that have had the fundamentals of their foundations engineered by single people whose names never become household terms like Kardashian or Kanye but who have greater impact on everyday human life than 99.9% of all who have ever lived.
I'm talking things like the transistor. Guys like Linus Torvalds.
C and C++ were largely originally defined by two people, and works as a basis to program for a large percentage of your EVERYDAY LIFE.
I'm using tech examples here, but it extends to other things. Often there are engineering challenges overcome with vast numbers of people and corporate structure, but my heroes are the people who do it by themselves.
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