10 World's Craziest Scientists

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Here are the World's top 10 craziest and most influential scientists and discoveries like the designer organism to spinal anesthesia!

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5. Andreas Wahl
It was earlier this year that a Norwegian physicist named Andreas Wahl went to extreme measures in order to prove his hypothesis that the laws of physics would keep him out of harm’s way. By dangling off the side of this building with nothing but the rope that’s attached to him, Wahl fell to the ground below when the weight at the other end of the rope was released. His theory proved correct when the weight wrapped around the pipe fast enough to stop him from actually hitting the ground. At 46 feet high and no safety equipment, Wahl truly put his trust in the laws of physics.

4. Stubbins Ffirth
This next scientist is pretty famously known throughout history and not by what he accomplished but by what he didn’t accomplish. It was back in 1793 when the yellow fever epidemic was all the rage. Stubbins Ffirth was just a mere medical student at the time and his goal was to prove that malaria isn’t contagious. Of course, we now all know that malaria is, in fact, contagious. Ffirth ended up spreading infected vomit into his own open wounds and smeared it all onto his eyeballs. Remarkably, he never contracted the disease. Why’s that you ask? Some people believe that the vomit he used was from patients who had late-stage malaria and weren’t contagious anymore. Others say it’s because he didn’t inject their infected blood straight into his bloodstream. Ffirth was pretty lucky, but then again he did smear vomit in his eyes for nothing.

3. Werner Forssmann
It was back in 1929 that heart surgery was still in its earliest stages of development, which proved difficult for physicians who were struggling to help cardiac patients at the time. Forssmann believed that it was possible for him to make his way to the heart by inserting a hollow tube through the veins of his patients. However, his fellow colleagues in Eberswalde, Germany, explained to him that such a procedure would initially spell disaster and prove to be fatal. Of course, he went through with it anyways on himself. A nurse had begged him to do the operation on her instead of on himself but when he put her under anesthesia he proceeded to shove a catheter up his arm and somehow managed to guide it to his heart. He then walked down to the X-Ray lab to show everyone his accomplishment. It would be years later that Forssmann would win the Nobel Prize in Medicine. Could you imagine if he didn’t win? That would be the ultimate snub.

2. Sir Henry Head
Sir Henry Head was a British neurologist with a fascination for how pain functioned but he couldn’t quite figure out exactly how it worked. It was during the beginning of the 19th century that Head spent those early years conducting interviews with patients who were suffering from nerve damage in order to figure out what they felt exactly. A good amount of years had passed and all he had to show for his hard work were nothing more than faint narratives from patients who didn’t care about his work in the slightest, so he thought it best to move on. Eventually, he began to experiment on himself after he had a piece of his radial nerve removed by a surgeon friend, thus severing his essential motor functions. He would then record in descriptive detail the pain he felt. He would be awarded a knighthood and a number of Nobel Prize nominations.

1. Barry Marshall
Let this next story be a lesson to all of you. This Australian doctor named Barry Marshall figured out that it was completely plausible for bacteria to survive inside of the human stomach because he knew that bacteria was the cause of ulcers. Now, Barry had monitored his patients with ulcers and saw that they were completely cured when they were placed on antibiotic therapy. Unfortunately, no one believed him as they would always tell him that is was impossible and when he tried to publish his new discovery it was reported that he was laughed out of the medical fraternity’s conferences. So what did Marshall end up doing? Naturally, he ingested some bacteria. Within a few days time, he developed all the symptoms and went on to cure himself with antibiotics after he isolated the bacteria. Marshall would then go on to win the Nobel Prize in Physiology.