Famous deaths in science

To find out how to sterilize food, make balloon, study radioactive ., many scientists have had to pour effort, gray matter and even life.

Many famous experts died in their own experiments to serve mankind. The first scientists to mention are:

1. Karl Scheele

Karl Scheele.Photo: tonghuar.com.

Scheele is the famous chemist of the 18th century. He is the one who discovered many important chemical components including oxygen (the co-discoverer of oxygen with Scheele is Joseph Priestley). In addition, Scheele also discovered molybdenum, tungsten (metal used to make electric hair bulbs), manganese, chlorine .

Scheele is also a scientist who has discovered the most primitive bactericidal method that was later applied and developed into a food sterilization method. Despite many such achievements, Scheele is a scientist who has a very bad habit of tasting the substances he found. And that made him pay for his life. After discovering a chemical called hydrogen cyanide, Scheele tasted this deadly poison. And finally, he was poisoned and died.

2. Jean - Francois De Rozier

Francois De Rozier's balloon test scene.Photos: wikimedia.org.

Jean - Francois is a very famous French physics and chemistry teacher in the late 18th century. In 1783, he created the first balloon and successfully tested the flight for some animals. Sheep, chickens and ducks . Then he personally experimented with free fall by balloon at an altitude of nearly 1000 meters above sea level. Not stopping there, Rozier also planned to use a balloon to fly over the canal from France to England. Unfortunately it was the last flight in a scientist's life. The balloon encounters hot air, deflating and falling, causing Francois to fall to the ground and die soon after. The death of the scientist is a great loss of the world science industry, but the achievements he left is the basis of the development of the airline industry in the future.

3. Elizabeth Ascheim

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A researcher of X-rays with her husband, Dr. Woolf. The couple Elizabeth and Woolf conducted many X-ray-related experiments. She once ordered an X-ray device to equip her husband's lab and it was also the first X-ray lab. in San Francisco. After years of working and conducting many experiments with this machine, Elizabeth suffered from cancer. The disease quickly metastasized and killed her some time later.

4. Alexander Bogdanov

Bogdanov was a physicist, a philosopher, economist, and a famous Russian science fiction writer in the early 20th century. In 1924, he began conducting an experiment on Blood transfusion to find the secret of not being young and old. After 11 experiments (Bogdanov did all these experiments on himself), he claimed to have found a way to prevent baldness and visual impairment due to old age. In 1928, Bogdanov continued to conduct this experiment, but he did not expect to have been infused with blood containing malaria virus and tuberculosis. Therefore, he died only a short time later due to infection.

5. Louis Slotin

A Canadian scientist who worked in the Manhattan nuclear program (America's atomic bomb program). During one experiment, he accidentally dropped a flask containing beryllium into a flask containing plutonium (a type of radioactive material) and other chemicals and this inadvertently caused a reaction. appalling chemistry. Those present at the time saw a cloud of blue smoke spreading and the heat quickly appeared. Slotin rushed out, but he fainted soon after and was taken to the emergency hospital. He died 9 days later because he was too radioactive. The "occupational" accident that Slotin had encountered was actually equivalent to an atomic bomb explosion 1.5 km away.