Albert Einstein
It's a common secret, the world's most genius scientists are a bunch of "weirdos". Perhaps it was these peculiarities that made them produce works and ideas that the average person did not even think of.
Some scientists are known for their eccentric personalities, others polymatics (polymaths) - competent in various fields to the extent that they can not understand the limitations of other people's brains.
Others spend time and resources in the search for knowledge in a crazy, crazy way, and produce surprising or even ridiculous results.
From some examples, the following 6 mad scientists with characters, ideas, behaviors, and claims findings that are not less eccentric, as summarized by Liputan6.com from Listverse.com, Tuesday (28/11/2017).
1. Claiming Able to Change Urine to Gold
In today's world, chemistry is known as factual and difficult science. But in its transformation into a scientific science, 'ancient chemistry' contains an absurd and questionable scientific method of validity.
One such absurd method is the alchemy paradigm, which speaks of a material capable of being transformed into another material far different from its origin.
The paradigm was popular and considered absolute truth by the ancient scientists. A number of theories that fall within the paradigm are claimed to be able to transform (transmutation) certain matter into gold.
In 1669, Hennig Brand emerged, an alchemist from Germany with an absurd claim. He claims that human urine has the potential to be transmuted into gold.
He immediately collected the urine of his wife and friends and began the process of boiling 5,700 liters of urine in his basement.
Brand did not manage to convert urine into gold, but boiled urine had strange attributes that shone in the dark.
In fact, through his experiment using the urine, Brand pioneered the creation of new chemicals.
After taking advantage of an alchemical process involving letting cold, luminous urine emit gas, Brand finally came to a white substance known today as phosphorus.
2. The Atomic Bomb Maker Is Fun
Richard Feynman is one of the most prolific and famous physicists of the 20th Century. Particularly to do with the Manhattan Project - a very secret effort by the United States to make the atomic bomb.
However, he is also idle and has a reputation as a troublemaker. When he got bored with the project he was doing at Los Amos, Feynman reportedly spent his spare time unpacking and breaking into the vaults of people - not money or possessions of his purposes, but to show how easy a system was hacked.
And, that's not just his adventure. When he developed the theory of quantum electrodynamics - which led him to the Nobel Prize - he reportedly often mixed with Las Vegas dancers, he learned to become a Mayan linguist, studied Tuva's typical throat, and explained how the O- ring) triggered a Challenger spacecraft explosion in 1986.
3. A Very Shy Hydrogen Inventor
Known as the inventor of hydrogen and his theorist about Earth density, Henry Cavendish of Britain is rumored to be the most shy scientist in the history of scientists in the world.
Cavendish has a sense of shame "bordering on illness", making you very reluctant to be discouraged to meet face-to-face let alone talk to other human beings, both male and female.
In fact, he reportedly deliberately built the back stairs at his home to avoid direct communication with his housekeeper. If the service is needed, Cavendish will leave a note on the steps.
Cavendish does occasionally like to be present in public eve
nts. He was a subscriber at a weekly scientific feast organized by naturalist Sir Joseph Banks.
Banks, who are aware of the Cavendish characters, even setting a special trick for the other guests who want to talk to the inventor of the hydrogen.
He advised the guests to, "Walk around Cavendish and crash with him as if in an accident and start talking while apologizing."
4. Genius of Math
Paul Erdos is a Hungarian mathematician who produced many important theories. Due to his dedication to work, he never married, had no home, lived with a suitcase, and often appeared on the doorsteps of his colleagues unannounced. To stay overnight. "My brain is very open," he said reasonably.
After a ride, he will complete a math problem, 1 to 2 days, before finally moving to another place.
Within 2 years, he drank coffee, took caffeine pills, and amphetamines, in order to stay awake to struggle in math for 19 to 20 hours a day. Thanks to his focused mind, all his efforts paid off. He published 1,500 important papers. It also has an "Erdos number" - which determines how close a person or contribution to his or her scientific work is.
Erdos number 1 for 458 collaborators in his scientific work. While Erdos 2 is for someone who collaborates with people who have Erdos number 1, and so on.
5. The Father of Nuclear Physics Vocalize
Ernest Rutherford is known as the father of nuclear physics, the first person known to successfully divide the atom, and sparked a theory that enabled the manufacture of nuclear weapons.
However, a group of people also recognize him as an outspoken individual. Not only that, his great posture also makes some people perceive that Rutherford is intimidating, though in reality not so.
Once upon a time, when Rutherford was invited to speak on a radio show at a considerable location, a close friend commented on the father of nuclear physics.
The colleague said, "why talk on the radio?", Insinuating that Rutherford's voice was so loud that it could be heard from a distance.
Not only speaking loudly and loudly, Rutherford is known as a very passionate person. His spirits are often misunderstood by some colleagues as dominant and extra-ambitious.
In fact, another colleague of Rutherford, James Chadwick once said, "He (Rutherford) is not a talented scientist, but he has a strong, passionate character, and works harder than others.
6. Professor Linglung
Werner Heisenberg is one of the most brilliant classical theoretical physicists. Nobel Prize Winner in Physics 1932. In 1927, the German scientist developed a "theory of uncertainty" of matrix mechanics - a mathematical system in atomic physics that was so complicated for most people.
However, do not ask about trivial rights. Heisenberg almost failed the doctoral exam because he hardly knew anything about experimental techniques. When a skeptical professor at the committee asks how the battery works, he simply does not know.
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