[DeepDish]

"FREDERICK MCKINLEY JONES (1893-1961) This World War I veteran is most remembered for introducing the first practical refrigeration system for trucks and railroad cars, a system that completely changed the food transport industry. Jones was responsible for a phenomenal 60 patents during his lifetime, 40 for refrigeration equipment alone."

A guy like this is worth 5 Nobel Prize winners in medicine. why? Because his inventions provide the basis of the veggie aisle in every grocery store in the US. This improves the health of the population and a healthier population is more disease resistant.

[cyborg]

It's too bad there aren't prizes for inventions that improve the condition of humanity. I'd like to win the nobel prize in literature or science, but they can keep the peace prize!