Minds Behind the Discoveries: 28 Intriguing Facts About Scientists – Part 2

21Leonardo Da Vinci

Leonardo Da Vinci

Leonardo Da Vinci could draw forward with one hand while writing backward with the other.


22Francis Crick

Francis Crick

Francis Crick, the Nobel winning scientist, was high on LSD when he first deduced the double-helix structure of DNA.


23Louis Pasteur

Louis Pasteur

Louis Pasteur was the head of the science program at a French school during the mid-1800s. He once told students that anyone caught smoking would be expelled. Seventy-three of the school's 80 students resigned.


24Isaac Newton

Isaac Newton

When Isaac Newton was 20, he compiled a list of his sins. They included: "threatening my father and mother Smith to burne them and the house over them", "peevishness with my mother". and "wishing death and hoping it to some".


25Thomas Edison

Thomas Edison

Thomas Edison's last breath is reportedly contained in a test tube at The Henry Ford museum near Detroit.


26Niels Bohr

Niels Bohr

Niels Bohr hid the Nobel Prize medals of the Jewish Max von Laue and James Franck from the Nazis, by dissolving the gold medals in acid, and then reversing the chemical process to retrieve the gold after the war.


27Gregor Mendel

Gregor Mendel

Gregor Mendel actually began his genetic experiments with mice but was told to change his experiments by a local bishop, who thought it was inappropriate that Mendel watched mice have sex.


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28Lord Kelvin

Lord Kelvin

Lord Kelvin, of temperature fame, developed a compass system for metal ships. It’s commonly known as Lord Kelvin’s Balls.

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