Stanislav Petrov
1939-2017 · Soviet Union / Russia
Prevented nuclear escalation
The Memorial
Those who acted for humanity.
A researched memorial to people whose choices placed humanity, knowledge, dignity, peace, culture, or the future above themselves.
Vasili Arkhipov
1926-1998 · Soviet Union / Russia
Refused a nuclear launch
Daniel Alcides Carrion
1857-1885 · Peru
Risked his life to study disease
Jesse Lazear
1866-1900 · United States
Helped prove yellow-fever transmission
Ameyo Stella Adadevoh
1956-2014 · Nigeria
Held the line against Ebola
Kim Suozzi
1989-2013 · United States
Made a public wager on future science
Khaled al-Asaad
1932-2015 · Syria
Protected the memory of Palmyra
Boris Baranov
1940-2005 · Ukraine / Soviet Union
Helped drain water beneath Reactor 4
Carlo Urbani
1956-2003 · Italy
Sounded the alarm on SARS
Wangari Maathai
1940-2011 · Kenya
Linked ecology, democracy, and peace
Norman Borlaug
1914-2009 · United States
Fought hunger through agricultural science
The principle
A selective, evolving record.
The Memorial is reserved for deceased people and researched individually. Selection recognizes a consequential act or body of work; it does not declare a life beyond criticism.
The Living Record
The work is not only behind us.
A forthcoming companion record for living people whose actions already belong to humanity's larger story.
Living selections will follow the same standards of evidence, context, and editorial judgment as the Memorial.
Suggest someone livingRemember humanity
A place in the record for everyone.
Leave your name, your place in the world, and one sentence for humankind.
This is a shared wall, not the selected memorial. The people above are individually researched and chosen; this space is for anyone who wants to add a small mark to the larger human story.
Opening the wall...