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Added on: 14th Dec 2015

 

LEO FENDER

Guitars

While he invented the telecaster and Stratocaster guitars he

allegedly couldn’t play a single chord.

 

 

ROBERT OPPENHEIMER

Robert Oppenheimer

A brilliant physicist who was fluent in eight languages and had trouble

understanding the limitations of others, Robert apparently once

asked a colleague, Leo Nedelsky, to prepare a lecture for him out of a

textbook. Leo came back confused and told him the book was in

Dutch to which Robert replied, “But it’s such easy Dutch!”

 

 

ABU NASR ISMA’IL IBN HAMMAD AL-JAWHARI

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Apart from the crazy name, this guy authored an Arabic dictionary

that contained 40,000 words. His real claim to fame, however, came

when he jumped off a building with wooden wings. There were no survivors.

 

 

ANDREW JACKSON

Andrew Jackson

Besides his tactical genius on the battlefield, this American president

was a bit off his rocker. He was known to get in so many duels and

gunfights that some friends claimed he would cough up blood

on a regular basis.

 

 

WERNER HEISENBERG

Werner Heisenberg

The famous German theoretical physicist basically invented the famous

uncertainty equations of quantum mechanics but when he was

asked during his doctoral dissertation about how a battery works,

he had no idea.

 

 

SERGEI BRYUKHONENKO

Sergei Bryukhonenko

Responsible for creating the first life support machine, Sergei is

known for keeping a severed dog’s head alive for several minutes.

Why? He needed to test his machine and even back then humans

were generally off limits for such things.

 

 

SAMUEL MORSE

Samuel Morse

In spite of developing Morse Code, Samuel was a bit crazy. He came to

the conclusion that Blacks, Jews, Catholics, and the entire country of

Austria were out to destroy America. Ironically, his invention facilitated

global interconnectivity and therefore immigration as well.

 

 

RUDOLF DIESEL

Rudolf Diesel

After inventing the diesel engine he committed suicide because he

thought his invention wouldn’t be successful.

 


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