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25 GENIUSES THAT CHANGED THE WORLD AND WHY THEY WERE CRAZY

By Sameen July 20, 2024


From holding their pee until they died to jumping off of buildings wearing
wooden wings, these are 25 geniuses that changed the world and why they were
crazy.
25


THOMAS EDISON



He invented a lot of stuff…ok, we know, Tesla invented it…but anyway, he did
some famous things one of which included electrocuting an elephant to prove that
Tesla’s AC current was more dangerous than his. Or so they say. While Edison was
crazy and he hated sleep, he actually had nothing to do with executing Topsy the
elephant. And now that we’ve gotten our myth dispelling fun fact out of the way,
on to the rest of our mad scientists.

24


ILYA IVANOVICH IVANOV



This Russian biologist was famous for creating animal hybrids. His madness came
to a peak when Stalin ordered him to create a race of slave ape men who would
serve communist Russia. He ended up inseminating several monkeys with human
semen although none of them became pregnant. Or so they say.

23


SIDNEY GOTTLIEB



An American military psychiatrist with a Ph.D. in chemistry, Sidney had some
crazy ideas in his day. He was the man responsible for the idea to fill Castro’s
shoes with thallium to make his beard fall out.

22


ROBERT CHESEBROUGH


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Not only did he invent vaseline, he ate it every single day.

21


PAUL ERDŐS



This Hungarian mathematician was so devoted to his work that he never married
and lived out of a suitcase. At the end of his life he had published about 1,500
papers.

20


ALEXANDER BOGDANOV



This Russian doctor was so obsessed with finding the secret of eternal youth
(typically through blood transfusions) that one day he unknowingly injected
himself with the blood of a student who was suffering from malaria. Alexander
died, but ironically enough, the student survived.

19


HENRY WINSTANLEY



An English engineer famous for designing the first lighthouse of Eddystone, he
was so confident in his work that he decided to stay in the lighthouse whenever
there was a storm. In November of 1703 England witnessed just how misplaced his
confidence was as the lighthouse crashed to the ground during a storm with the
eccentric inventor inside.

18


FRANZ REICHELT



Known as the “flying taylor” this Frenchman was an early paratrooper pioneer who
dedicated himself to finding a way for soldiers to survive falls from airplanes.
After a few test flights with dummies being thrown out of windows he decided to
go all out and jumped off the Eiffel Tower wearing his invention. Unfortunately
the results were not life sustaining.

17


BUCKMINSTER FULLER


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The architect famous for creating the geodesic dome only slept 2 hours a night
and wore three watches so he could keep track of time in different time zones.

16


LEO FENDER



While he invented the telecaster and stratocaster guitars he allegedly couldn’t
play a single chord.

15


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!”

14


ABU NASR ISMA’IL IBN HAMMAD AL-JAWHARI



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.

13


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.

12


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.

11


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.

10


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.

9


RUDOLF DIESEL



After inventing the diesel engine he committed suicide because he thought his
invention wouldn’t be successful.

8


WILLIAM CHESTER MINOR


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An American surgeon who was responsible for adding most of the example
quotations to the original Oxford Dictionary. The crazy part? He did this while
in an insane asylum because he had killed somebody in a bout of paranoia. His
incarceration gave him plenty of time to think of example sentences though.

7


RICHARD FEYNMAN



Known for his work on the Manhattan Project, Richard was also a notorious
prankster. He would spend his free time picking locks and cracking safes around
the premises to show how easy it would be to break in somewhere (ironic
considering he worked in such a secure environment). He also became fluent in
Mayan and learned how to throat sing.

6


YOSHIRO NAKAMATSU



The Japanese inventor responsible for the CD, DVD, and digital watch documents
every single thing he eats in order to fulfill his passion of living to be
exactly 144 years old and apparently not a second more.

5


OLIVER HEAVISIDE



The British mathematician was known as an eccentric who placed huge granite
blocks around his house and went for long periods of time consuming nothing but
milk.

4


HENRY CAVENDISH



Although he basically discovered hydrogen, Henry had notoriously bad social
skills and sat at home all day. His discoveries weren’t found out until nearly
100 years after his death by James Maxwell and by that time other people
had made pretty much all of his discoveries and received the credit.

3


TYCHO BRAHE



This Danish astronomer is famous for staying at the table during a banquet in
Prague even though he needed to pee. Unfortunately he ended up developing a
kidney stone and dying.

2


NIKOLAI TESLA



After building a high frequency oscillator he invited Mark Twain over because
Mark was having digestive issues. He told Mark to stand on the machine and about
90 seconds later Mark ran for the bathroom. Nikolai later remarked that he had
shook the poop out of Mark Twain.

1


PYTHAGORAS



Besides the Pythagorean Theorum one of his great ideas was that beans were so
bad for you that they should not be eaten or touched. Legend has it that he was
chased from his house by attackers and after coming to a bean field he chose to
face his death rather than cross it.






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