Top 10 Scientists Killed or Injured by Their Experiments


	Top 10 Scientists Killed or Injured by Their Experiments
Mohir
6-8-2008 11:53 AM
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6-8-2008 3:36 PM
ofcapri
Very enlightening, I'm sure there are many more that we don't know about. Sorta swept under the carpet. Thanks.
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<DIV class="itemtitle">Karl Scheele</DIV>
<DIV class="itemmore">Died from tasting his discoveries</DIV>
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<DIV class="itemtitle">Jean-Francois De Rozier</DIV>
<DIV class="itemmore">First victim of an air crash</DIV>
</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://listverse.com/science/top-10-scientists-killed-or-injured-by-their-experiments"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/listverse.com/img/3C8000D3-8FB6-406E-8143-41B054AB51AA" alt="Picture 2-17" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://listverse.com/science/top-10-scientists-killed-or-injured-by-their-experiments"><DIV class="itemheading"><SPAN class="itemnumber">8</SPAN>
<DIV class="itemtitle">Sir David Brewster</DIV>
<DIV class="itemmore">Nearly blinded</DIV>
</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://listverse.com/science/top-10-scientists-killed-or-injured-by-their-experiments"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/listverse.com/img/A0E3089A-2797-4BF1-80A6-9C915D348854" alt="0 Hill And Adamson Brewster" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://listverse.com/science/top-10-scientists-killed-or-injured-by-their-experiments"><DIV class="itemheading"><SPAN class="itemnumber">7</SPAN>
<DIV class="itemtitle">Elizabeth Ascheim</DIV>
<DIV class="itemmore">Killed by X-Rays</DIV>
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<DIV class="itemtitle">Alexander Bogdanov</DIV>
<DIV class="itemmore">Killed himself with blood</DIV>
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<DIV class="itemtitle">Robert Bunsen</DIV>
<DIV class="itemmore">Blinded himself in one eye</DIV>
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<DIV class="itemtitle">Sir Humphrey Davy</DIV>
<DIV class="itemmore">A catalog of disasters</DIV>
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<DIV class="itemtitle">Michael Faraday</DIV>
<DIV class="itemmore">Suffered chronic poisoning</DIV>
</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://listverse.com/science/top-10-scientists-killed-or-injured-by-their-experiments"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/listverse.com/img/448B4DD7-55B2-4198-B319-B61B5E29BF77" alt="Michael-Faraday" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://listverse.com/science/top-10-scientists-killed-or-injured-by-their-experiments"><DIV class="itemheading"><SPAN class="itemnumber">2</SPAN>
<DIV class="itemtitle">Marie Curie</DIV>
<DIV class="itemmore">Died of radiation exposure</DIV>
</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://listverse.com/science/top-10-scientists-killed-or-injured-by-their-experiments"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/listverse.com/img/519EFEED-5F62-4D65-AF02-AD04B49A96AE" alt="Curie" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://listverse.com/science/top-10-scientists-killed-or-injured-by-their-experiments">In 1898, Curie and her husband, Pierre, discovered radium.  </blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://listverse.com/science/top-10-scientists-killed-or-injured-by-their-experiments"><DIV class="itemheading"><SPAN class="itemnumber">1</SPAN>
<DIV class="itemtitle">Galileo Galilei</DIV>
<DIV class="itemmore">Blinded himself</DIV>
</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://listverse.com/science/top-10-scientists-killed-or-injured-by-their-experiments"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/listverse.com/img/05E782DB-F003-4CE6-9AEA-6B22825D365A" alt="300Px-Galileo.Arp.300Pix-1" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://listverse.com/science/top-10-scientists-killed-or-injured-by-their-experiments"><DIV class="itemheading"><SPAN class="itemnumber">Bonus</SPAN>
<DIV class="itemtitle">Louis Slotin</DIV>
<DIV class="itemmore">Killed himself with an accidental fission reaction</DIV>
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