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He was an Associate Justice of the US Supreme Court, a noted jurist and he helped to found the American Civil Liberties Union.
He may or may not have been a doctor, but there is no denying he was a hero during the Holocaust era. Felix Kersten was a massage therapist; he became the personal masseuse of Nazi Heinrich Himmler and won Himmler's trust. But Kersten was a courageous and ethical person who held no animosity against Jews: he is credited by many sources as having rescued, or contributed to the rescue of as many as 60,000 of them, including about 3,000 Jews from Finland.
The Jefferson Nickel was designed by Felix Schlag for which he won a $1000 award for winning a competition among 390 artists. The design was first used on the 1938 mintage.