The eccentric life of 10 world geniuses

Geniuses often have a monstrous personality. Some of them have eccentric habits such as pink nail polish, adventure life, not eating beans, . to search for knowledge and pursue great ideas.

Edward Drinker Cope (left) - Othniel Charles Marsh and war on bones

During the dinosaur fever in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, two people used all means to cross each other during the hunt for dinosaur fossils , the paleontologist Othniel Charles Marsh at the Peabody Museum. at Yale University, and Edward Drinker Cope at the Natural Science Academy in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. At first, they were quite close, but after that they became hated by competition.

On a fossil hunting trip, Marsh bribed the fossil pit keepers to get what he wanted. Another time, Marsh installed a spy to join one of Cope's expeditions. It was rumored that the two of them had put explosives into each other's fossil pit to hinder the other's discovery. For years, they openly humiliated each other on academic articles and wrote articles condemning each other as financial corruption and incompetence.

However, both researchers have contributed greatly to the field of paleontology . Iconic dinosaurs such as Stegosaurus, Triceratops, Diplodocus and Apatosaurus were excavated thanks to their efforts.

Oliver Heaviside - the most ridiculous scientist

British electrical mathematician and engineer Oliver Heaviside has developed complex mathematical techniques for analyzing electric circuits and solving differential equations . But this genius was given the nickname ' the most weird person ' by friends. The engineer designed the house with huge granite blocks, his nail polish was bright pink, even he only drank milk to survive for a few days. Heaviside is like Isaac Newton, working alone and not always publishing his experiments. He recorded many ideas in notebooks. Heaviside thought these ideas could not be made public, but it turned out to be all very important studies. The scientist is suffering from hypergraphia , a brain disease that causes people to overdo writing.

Funny physicist Richard Feynman

He was one of the most prominent and most famous physicists of the 20th century. He was involved in the Manhattan Project, the top secret US effort to build an atomic bomb . Feynman is also a naughty guy. When bored at the Manhattan project at Los Alamos, he often spent his free time playing with locks and keys to see how easily these systems could be disabled. Not only that, on the path to developing the theory that gave him the Nobel Prize for quantum dynamics , he often hangs out with girls performing in Las Vegas.

In addition, he was an expert on the Maya language, learning to sing Tuavn by his throat and investigating the cause of the Challenger space shuttle's explosion in 1986.

Homeless mathematician Paul Erdős

The Hungarian number theorist was very devoted to his work and did not marry, he lived with a suitcase, often appearing in front of colleagues' houses without ever noticing. He said that "my brain is very comfortable" , then he will work on mathematical problems continuously within a day or two. Later, he was addicted to coffee, taking caffeine, stimulants to consciously study mathematics for 19 to 20 hours a day, and published about 1,500 important articles until the end of his life.

Buckminster Fuller and life diary

The famous architect and scientist Buckminster Fuller created the arch architecture. These are fictional images of future cities and a car called Dymaxion in the 1930s.

Fuller is also eccentric, he is famous for wearing three watches at the same time to watch the time in three different areas as he flies around the earth. He only slept about two hours a night, and he used to call Dymaxion sleep . What is special, all that happened around him was recorded by him. From 1915 to 1983 when he died, Fuller kept his diary with a detailed description of his life updated every 15 minutes. As a result, his 82-meter-high logbooks were stored at Stanford University.

Physicist Robert Oppenheimer

This is a scientist fluent in 8 languages and knowledgeable in many areas including poetry, linguistics and philosophy. This made Oppenheimer sometimes difficult to help others understand what he said. For example, in 1931, he asked his colleague Leo Nedelsky from the University of California Berkeley to prepare a lecture for him, noting that it was not difficult because the content was available in a book that Oppenheimer gave Leo Nedelsky. Later, the colleague did not know how to do it because the book was written entirely in Dutch and the friend brought it back. Oppenheimer's reaction was: 'But Dutch is so easy.'

Professor Werner Heisenberg was distracted

He was an outstanding theoretical physicist with a head always on 'cloud'. In 1927, the German theoretical physicist developed the famous indeterminate equations in the field of quantum mechanics, rules to explain the small-scale operation of subatomic. However, he failed his doctoral thesis examination because he did not know a bit about experimental techniques. When a critical professor in the judging panel asked him how the battery worked, he could not answer.

Unsung hero Nikola Tesla

His hometown in Serbia, he later moved to the United States in 1884, he worked for Thomas Edison, and made important breakthroughs in radio, robotics and electricity. But he suffered from obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), he did not touch anything slightly dirty, hair, pearl earrings or round objects. Also he was obsessed with number 3, he walked around a building three times before entering, and at every meal he used exactly 18 napkins to wipe the utensils until the sparkle new.

Tycho Brahe - died of urinating

In the 16th century, Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe was a nobleman famous for his eccentric life and unusual death. He lost his nose in a sword fight at the university and had to wear a fake nose made of metal. He likes parties, he has an island of his own and invites friends to play castle, adventure, wild. He often showed off to a moose because he was domesticated and a dwarf named Jepp kept him as a " clown" sitting under the table, where Brahe woke him up with some leftovers. But the joy of partying unintentionally led to his death. At a party in Prague, Brahe insisted on staying at the table when he needed to urinate, because leaving the table meant being inferior and losing in a game. This caused him to have kidney and bladder infections broken after 11 days in 1601.

Pythagoras - scientist does not eat beans

Greek mathematician Pythagoras is the inventor of the basic geometry theorems, the most famous of which is the Pythagorean theorem. But some of his ideas failed to stand the test of time, he endorsed the philosophy of vegetarianism, but one of its principles was to ban contact or eat beans.

Legend has it that beans are part of Pythagoras's death. After being attacked by an enemy to run out of the house, he met a bean field, where he was supposed to die rather than run into a bean field, and the attacker quickly cut off his throat ( The historical record does not specify why he was attacked by the enemy.