5 real mad scientists that did disturbing things.

scientists that did disturbing things.

When you think of a scientist, you likely think of someone trying to change the world for a better tomorrow. However, not everyone is so altruistic. There are others that use their smarts to benefit themselves or in some cases even for evil intent. Here are 5  real mad scientists that did disturbing things.

5) Andrew Ure. 

The most famous fictional mad scientist is Victor Frankenstein, who resurrected the dead. But there were many both before and after Mary Shelley's novel who not only believed that it was possible to raise the dead but actually tried it. Andrew Ure is just such one of those people. He was a Scottish scientist who took an interest in reanimating the dead. By 1818, Ure gained access to the bodies of freshly hanged criminals. This allowed him to experiment in macabre and frightening ways, but these experiments were not carried out behind closed doors. Ure was a showman and enjoyed cutting open the cadavers in front of an audience. Sending large amounts of electricity through the bodies, Ure and his audience were captivated by the way that the bodies contorted and sneered as if they were alive.

4) Robert G. Heath.

Robert G. Heath explored the possibilities of mind control. While Delgado focused on domination, Heath explored the boundaries of pleasure and pain. At a university in New Orleans, Heath inserted electrodes into people's brains, wiring them up in such a way that he could control their experience of the world. With the flick of a switch, Heath was able to take individuals to the height of ecstasy and to the depths of pain and agony. By injecting a chemical called acetylcholine, Heath was able to ramp up each person's pleasure receptors to the point that they would be crippled by joy. However, he was also able to administer pain on an almost unprecedented scale. Many believe that he continued his work for the CIA and that his mind control techniques have been expanded upon since.

                 

3) Giovanni Aldini.

For many, Giovanni Aldini is a real life Victor Frankenstein. His grotesque experiments on trying to raise the dead were clearly an influence on Mary Shelley's novel. In 1803, Aldini experimented on a man called Forster who had been hanged for drowning his wife and child. Aldini hoped to clear the name of his uncle, a man named Volta, who had supported the ideas decades previously that the dead could be animated with electricity. In front of medical students, Aldini placed electrodes on the head of Forster and sent an electric charge through his body. Watching in horror, they observed Forster open his eyes, grimace, and raise his clenched fists into the air. His body stopped moving when the electricity ceased. Some believe Aldini did indeed bring Forster back from the dead for one last agonizing moment of existence. Number four is Ilya Ivanov. Soviet biologist Ilya Ivanov ran a series of disturbing experiments during the 1920s. His obsession was with human hybridization. This is the idea that you can cross a human bring with an animal, creating a hybrid of the two. While working in Paris, Ivanov operated on a chimpanzee, grafting a human woman's ovary into the chimp. He then tried to fertilize the ovary with a human sperm. When his experiments failed, Ivanov traveled to Africa and experimented on three more chimpanzees, trying to artificially inseminate them with human DNA. Finally, when none of the chimpanzees fell pregnant, he found five female volunteers willing to mate with primates to see if hybridization was possible. As far as we know, he was never successful. But rumors persist that the hybrids are out there somewhere.

2) Nikola Tesla.

There is no doubt that Nikola Tesla is one of the greatest inventors of all time. However, he absolutely qualifies as a mad scientist when pursuing his more eccentric works. Famous for producing novel and innovative ways to harness electricity, Tesla also claimed to have worked on a particle gun which could shoot down thousands of airplanes at one time, an earthquake device which could collapse a building, and even the ability to teleport people across space. While these claims seem outlandish, many believe he's one of the only human beings in history who could actually develop such technologies. Rumors persist that in his experimentation with energy sources he made contact with a mysterious extra-terrestrial intelligence with a sinister purpose. He was a such a great scientist that he had actually many unbelievable petents on his name you can buy this book on amazon Nikola Tesla lectures and patented.

 

1) Sergio Canavero. 

The realm of strange and sometimes frightening scientific experimentation is not just a relic of the past. As we speak, a group of scientists are trying to develop the first ever human head transplant. The idea is to remove the head from someone who's paralyzed and then place it onto the body of a recently deceased person with an intact spine. The work has championed by a professor in Italy called Sergio Canavero. Many in the scientific community have argued that the work is highly dangerous, grisly, and risks the life of the participant. However, Canavero and his team are continuing to push through with their work and claims have been made that a working procedure has been developed. Only time will tell whether Sergio Canavero is seen as a visionary scientist or a mad scientist for removing people's heads.

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