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15 Real-Life Crazy Scientists

The amazing discoveries, inventions, research, experiments, and ideas of the world’s best scientists have been critical in shaping society’s current structure. However, most of us realize by the time we’re all grown that these scientists are nothing like their movie counterparts. Right up until the twentieth century, great scientists were undertaking vital, world-changing research while also displaying more than their fair share of oddity and peculiarity. Scientists’ intellect and eccentricity appear to go hand in hand. Some of the most creative brains in history have also been the oddest. Here are 15 real-life crazy scientists who made significant contributions to their respective fields.

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1. Nikola Tesla

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Nikola Tesla was a Serbian inventor famous for three things, the invention of electric oscillators, meters, improved lights, and the high-voltage transformer. He also laid the groundwork for radar, the electron microscope, and microwave appliances. Tesla suffered from obsessive-compulsive disorder, which drove him to do things in threes, such as only staying in hotel rooms that were divisible by three. He had a pigeon obsession and an aversion to women wearing earrings, which contributed to his eccentric image.

2. Leonardo da Vinci

Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci was a High Renaissance Italian polymath who was best known as an artist, although he invented some fairly amazing things. He created technological gadgets that are still in use today, from an early form of the airplane to a primitive scuba suit. Leonardo is generally regarded as a genius who embodied the Renaissance humanist ideal, and his collective works represent a contribution to subsequent generations of artists rivaled only by that of his younger contemporary, Michelangelo. However, Leonardo was not your typical inventor. He had no formal education, dissected animals to learn about their anatomy, enjoyed creating war machines, and wrote many of his best ideas backward in mirror image cursive, possibly to prevent plagiarism.

3. Albert Einstein

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Albert Einstein is widely known for his pioneering work which led to groundbreaking ideas about mass, motion, time, and space, and also for his theories of special and general relativity. His finding of the photoelectric effect earned him the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1921. However, Einstein was not your normal inventor his hair was never combed, his clothes were always unkempt, and he never wore socks even when visiting President Roosevelt at the White House. When Einstein’s marriage to Mileva Maric was failing, he provided her with a set of rules to follow if they were to stay together. The list stated that she should be his maid but not anticipate any affection or attention from him.

4. Isaac Newton

Newton’s extraordinary contributions to science, such as the three main laws of motion (the principles of inertia, force, action, and reaction), the law of gravitation, and his discoveries in optics, astronomy, and mathematics, account for much of what we know about him. His laws made it possible to calculate actual distances, speeds, and weights, setting the groundwork for contemporary inventions ranging from the steam engine to the space rocket. However, Newton was one of the oddest. He was known to experiment on himself, even poking himself in the eye with a needle while researching. He also believed that the world would end sometime after 2060.

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5. Francis Crick

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Francis Harry Crick was a molecular chemist, biophysicist, and neuroscientist who along with James Watson, Rosalind Franklin, and Maurice Wilkins, was instrumental in determining the helical shape of the DNA molecule. Crick was undoubtedly one of the greatest minds in science, which makes his later beliefs all the more difficult to understand. Crick became an advocate of one of the strangest pseudoscientific theories of all time sometime in the 1970s, a theory so out there that if someone on the bus suggested it to you, you might be tempted to move away from them rapidly. The premise of “directed panspermia” is that life on Earth was purposefully seeded by extraterrestrials, which sounds more like a sci-fi movie plot than anything founded on methodical scientific research.

6. William Buckland

William Buckland, a nineteenth-century theologian, and paleontologist was the first to give a detailed description of a fossilized dinosaur known as the Megalosaurus. Even though his work was admired, he had some unusual appetites. Buckland was obsessed with eating his way through the entire animal world. He claimed to have eaten rodents, porpoises, panthers, bluebottle flies, and even King Louis XIV’s preserved heart. Perhaps his greatest culinary accomplishment is his alleged consumption of King Louis XIV’s shrunken heart a distinction that arguably overshadows his account of a Megalosaurus.

7. Richard Feynman

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Richard Feynman’s primary work was in quantum physics and particle physics, where he is best known for the Feynman diagram, a graphic representation of particle processes. However, he was known as an odd genius. When Feynman and his second wife divorced in 1956, it made for an amusing newspaper story that was syndicated across the nation. The copy read, “Mrs. Feynman won a divorce on cruelty grounds after testifying that her husband worked calculus problems all day.” He performed math “from the moment he awoke, while driving his car,” and even “while lying in bed at night.” When he wasn’t doing that, he was making “a terrific noise” on the drums and if she spoke to him, he said she was interfering with his job.

8. Robert G. Heath

Robert G. Heath, a board-certified neurologist, psychiatrist, and psychoanalyst, has a contentious stance within this framework and is best known for his work on schizophrenia. Dr. Heath was among the first doctors to use electrodes implanted in deep cortical structures as a psychosurgical intervention. However, Heath was preoccupied with manipulating pleasure and pain receptors. He discovered that by wiring up people’s brains with electrodes, he could give them bursts of pleasure while researching at Tulane University in New Orleans. Heath could then directly give acetylcholine to the brain via a narrow tube inserted alongside the electrodes, resulting in virtual ecstasy, including numerous orgasms lasting up to half an hour.

9. Werner Heisenberg

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Werner Heisenberg’s name will be forever associated with his quantum mechanics theory. Heisenberg received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1932 for this theory and its applications, which culminated in the discovery of allotropic forms of hydrogen in particular. But why is Heisenberg still a source of contention 100 years after his birth? The American historian Paul Rose raises significant doubts about Heisenberg’s personal morality in his monograph, Heisenberg and the Nazi Atomic Bomb Project. He is characterized as a wildly emotional and ambitious man who was unable to break free from German anti-Semitism. He is also responsible for scientific misunderstandings.

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10. Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin was one of America’s founding leaders. He was also a renowned scholar, diplomat, statesman, postmaster, and campaigner. Franklin’s political and scientific achievements are noteworthy, but some strange facts about his life are unknown to the public. He is regarded as America’s most outlandish founding father. Franklin proposed that farts be scientifically studied and that researchers create drugs to make farting less offensive. He attempted to cook a turkey with electricity and electrocuted himself when his endeavor failed. Franklin also believed that nakedness could help avoid illness so he’d go sunbathing naked. Weirdest of all, dead bodies were discovered in his basement.

11. Thomas Edison

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Thomas Alva Edison, one of the most famous and prolific inventors of all time, had a huge impact on contemporary living, inventing the incandescent light bulb, the phonograph, and the motion picture camera, as well as improving the telegraph and the telephone. Edison was a mediocre creator. He struggled socially throughout his life, with his lack of charm and gruff demeanor resulting in few close acquaintances. In short, he couldn’t tolerate interacting with most other people, which is why he developed a habit of locking himself away in his lab.

12. Alexander Graham Bell

Although Alexander Graham Bell is best known for inventing the telephone, he also created other technologies. Bell invented several sound devices, including the photophone and the Graphophone. He also made advances in medical science. However, he was also an oppressor. Bell was not the first to come up with the concept of the telephone as some claim that he stole the concept from Elisha Gray. Worse, Bell believed that deafness was a terrible curse for the individual who had it. He never regarded the deaf community as valuable and he believed, against all evidence, that the only way to find social cures for deafness was to integrate the deaf with the hearing.

13. Giovanni Aldini

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Aldini’s work paved the way for the development of different types of electrotherapy, which were widely used later in the nineteenth century. however, he did his experiments by connecting dead animals and people to batteries to demonstrate that electricity was, in fact, the vital life force that science and alchemy had long sought. It isn’t, because just coming into touch with that much electricity caused the dead flesh to jolt and sputter, but it did make for some entertaining amusement. He also worked with real patients. In actuality, his treatment for mental disorders was “transcranial administration of electric current.” This implies that he shocked insane individuals in the head.

14. Charles Darwin

Charles Darwin is a well-known scientist, and rightly so, on revolutionized biology by explaining how life evolves and diversifies. However, as with any historical figure, many details of Darwin’s existence have been lost to time. Sure, he helped us comprehend our place and legacy in nature, but he was also odd. Darwin was an adventurous eater, bringing his signature scientific curiosity to both wild and table animals. He presided over the “Glutton Club” in Cambridge, a weekly meeting of food connoisseurs who gathered to dine on “strange flesh.” The club frequently ate hawks and bitterns, but Darwin is said to have gagged on a meal of brown owl, noting that the taste was “indescribable.”That didn’t stop him from sampling other exotic meats during his South American trips. Darwin, like food, adopted a deliberate analytical approach to marriage by marrying his first cousin.

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15. Jack Parsons

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Jack Parsons developed the first rocket engine to use a castable, composite rocket propellant, and he was a driving force behind the advancement of both liquid-fuel and solid-fuel rockets. Parsons converted to Thelema, a philosophy-cum-religion created by occultist Aleister Crowley, in 1939. He and his housemates were seen dancing virtually naked around a fire in the garden on several occasions, in what appeared to be a pagan ritual. At times, he collaborated with Scientology creator L. Ron Hubbard to raise the Antichrist’s mother, and to do so, Parsons masturbated while Hubbard took notes. Hubbard intoned while Parsons and his mistress made love, as the pair thought they could summon spirits.

All “mad scientists” share noble characteristics which are brilliance, visionary, perfectionist, and ardently driven. Despite their eccentric nature, these scientists have fulfilled their responsibilities in changing the world and making life easier.