| NIKOLA TESLA: VITALS
FRINGE SCIENTIST
| |  NIKOLA TESLA | | | | Also known as: The Father of Physics | | Good or evil?: Benign | | Education: Electrical engineering at the Austrian Polytechnic | | Trademark look: Suit and Tie. | | Eccentricities: OCD (especially obsessed with the number 3). | | Obsession(s): Power, electricity, engineering, and magnetism. | | Assistant(s): | Fun Facts:
**After his death, his papers, notes and documents were confiscated (with FBI Director J Edgar Hoover's blessing) by the government agency then responsible for investigating UFO phenomena!
**David Bowie interpreted Nikola Tesla in the film " The Prestige". (Very Good Movie: ****)
**A Tesla conceived 'Projected Force' weapon is seen in Episode 1.04, "The Arrival".
**'Wireless' power transmission as demonstrated by Tesla is seen in Episode 1.05 eminating from Meegar after he exits the downed elevator thru the parking garage and all the cars' electrical systems are agitated. | Mini-bio:
born on July 9/10, 1856, died on Jan. 7, 1943), Serbian-American inventor and researcher who discovered the rotating magnetic field, the basis of most alternating-current machinery. As a little child, he was obsessed with water streams and from early age, he said he will succeed in generating power from water flow. He emigrated to the United States in 1884 and sold the patent rights to his system of alternating-current dynamos, transformers, and motors to George Westinghouse the following year. In 1891 he invented the Tesla coil, an induction coil widely used in radio technology.
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"Let the future tell the truth and evaluate each one according to his work and accomplishments.The present is thiers; the future,for which I really worked, is mine."
On Relativity:
"Relativity {is a} magnificent mathematical garb which fascinates, dazzles and makes people blind to {it's} underlying errors." | | | | Time period: 1856-1943, 19th-20th centuries | | Location(s): Austrian Empire and later, America | | Main objective(s): to tap the 'universal power ether' anytime and anywhere. | | Fringe theories/concepts: Alternating Current, cohesive particle beams, radio waves. | | Famous experiment(s): the successful 1891 "Tesla Effect" demos in upstate New York; and the disasterous 1891 "Resonant Frequency" research in New York, NY (he nearly shook the building which housed his lab down). | | Technology (used/created): True inventor of Radio; the Tesla Coil; Wireless Electricity Delivery Systems; A/C (polyphase) current; Flourescent light tubes; early x-ray tube research. | | Most well-known for: A/C current; America's greatest electrical engineer | | Discoveries: Polyphase Electrical Current generation; That an ozone/nitrous acid complex causes damage to biological systems over-exposed to X-rays; the basic principles for RADAR and radio controlled craft and weapons. | | Failures: The Wardenclyffe Tower project; the 1891 "Resonant Frequency" Experiments in New York City; Also, some of his ideas were too 'Fringey' for his day, such as his unsuccessfull attempts at developing a 'Death Ray' (--a focused, cohesive atomic partical beam gun) and a 'Projected (Magnetic Repelling) Force' weapon. | | |
| Dr. Hoffman Albert
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FRINGE SCIENTIST | | | | | Also known as: Father of LSD | | Good or evil?: Neutral | | Education: University of Zurich |
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| | Mini-bio: Hofmann was born in Baden, Switzerland, the first of four children born to a factory toolmaker. Due to his father's low income, Albert's godfather paid for his education. When his father fell ill, Hofmann took up a position as a commercial apprentice in concurrence with his studies. At the age of twenty, Hofmann began his Chemistry degree at the University of Zurich, finishing three years later, in 1929. | | | | | | Best quotes: "I think that in human evolution it has never been as necessary to have this substance LSD. It is just a tool to turn us into what we are supposed to be." | | | | Time period: January 11, 1906 - April 29, 2008 | | Location(s): Baden, Switzerland, Berg im Leimental Switzerland | | Main objective(s): Chemist at Sandoz Laboratories, now called Novartis. | | Fringe theories/concepts: | | Famous experiment(s): While researching lysergic acid derivatives, Hofmann first synthesized LSD-25 in 1938, the main intention of the synthesis however was to obtain a respiratory and circulatory stimulant. While re-synthesizing LSD, he accidentally absorbed a small quantity through his fingertips and serendipitously discovered its powerful effects before his bicycle ride home. Three days later Hofmann deliberately consumed 250 micrograms of LSD. This was followed by a series of self-experiments conducted by Hofmann and his colleagues. He first wrote about these experiments stating he experienced effects that included; "remarkable restlessness, combined with a slight dizziness" and "an extremely stimulated imagination". | | Technology (used/created): |
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| Dr. Josef Mengle
MAD SCIENTIST | | | | German SS officer and physician in Auschwitz. | | | Also known as: Angel of Death. | | Good or evil?: EVIL | | Education: | | Trademark look: | | Eccentricities: | Obsession(s):Identical Twins
| Assistant(s):Berthold Epstein
| | Nemesis: | | Mini-bio:Mengele occupied his time with other numerous acts of the most base cruelty, including the dissection of live infants; the castration of boys and men without the use of an anesthetic; and the administering of high-voltage electric shocks to women inmates under the auspices of testing their endurance. On one occasion Mengele even sterilized a group of Polish nuns with an X-ray machine, leaving the women horribly burned. | | | | | Time period:March 16, 1911 – February 7, 1979 | | Location(s):Germany | Main objective(s):Human experiments
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| Fritz Haber
FRINGE AND MAD (1/2) SCIENTIST | | | | | Also known as: Father of Chemical Warfare | | Good or evil?: A complex mixture of both | | Education: University of Heidelberg (under Robert Bunsen) and at the University of Berlin (today the Humboldt University of Berlin) | | Trademark look: | | Eccentricities: | | Obsession(s): Serving the Fatherland (Germany) | | Assistant(s): | | Nemesis: | He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1918 for the Haber Process in which he and Carl Bosch developed for the catalytic formation of ammonia from hydrogen and atmospheric nitrogen under conditions of low temperature and high pressure.
Haber played a major role in the development of chemical warfare in World War I. In addition to leading the teams developing chlorine gas and other deadly gases for use in trench warfare, Haber was on hand to personally oversee its release at the 2nd Battle of Ypres, 22 April 1915.
In an effort to assist in repaying the German war-debt after WWI, Haber exhaustively searched for a method to extract gold from sea water. However, after years of research, he concluded that gold extraction from sea water was uneconomic. | | |  | Best quotes:
Haber defended gas warfare against accusations that it was inhumane, saying that: "death was death, by whatever means it was inflicted." | | | | Time period: 1868 - 1934 | | Location(s): A large part of his work from 1911 to 1933 was done at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Physical Chemistry and Elektrochemistry at Berlin-Dahlem. | | Main objective(s): | | Fringe theories/concepts: | | Famous experiment(s): | Technology (used/created):
Industrial production of ammonia
Use of chlorine gas for chemical warfare, including the use of gas masks and absorbent filters. | Most well-known for:
Discovering how to produce nitrogen products (including fertilizers and explosives) from atmospheric nitrogen using the Haber-Bosch process. | Discoveries:
The Haber-Bosch process for which he was awarded a Nobel Prize (1918). | Failures:
Failed to extract gold from seawater in economic quantities. | | |
| [NAME]: VITALS
FRINGE or MAD SCIENTIST | | | | Also known as: Father of DNA Testing
| Good or evil?: Both
| | Education: | | Trademark look: | Eccentricities: Believes HIV does not cause AIDS
| | Obsession(s): | | Assistant(s): | | Nemesis: | | Mini-bio: Discovered principals of DNA Testing, testified at OJ Simpson trial, took lots of LSD in the 1960s and 1970s, according to Albert Hoffman (see above) he said ".. LSD had helped him develop the polymerase chain reaction that helps amplify specific DNA sequences. | | | | | Time period: | | Location(s): | | Main objective(s): | Fringe theories/concepts: HIV does not caues AIDS.
| | Famous experiment(s): | Technology (used/created): Created DNA Testing
| Most well-known for:DNA testing, LSD use, HIV Controversy, OJ Simpson trial testimony.
| Discoveries: DNA testing
| Failures: His belief that HIV does not cause AIDS **may** have led to the deaths of untold numbers of people in countries where the leadership believed him - for instance, South Africa.
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| HUBERTUS STRUGHOLD: 1898-1986
FRINGE and MAD SCIENTIST | | | | HUBERTUS STRUGHOLD: MEDICAL DOCTOR | | | Also known as: "The Father of Space Medicine" | | Good or evil?: Both | | Education: Ph.D and M.D., Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany | | Trademark look: Prim professorial look | | Eccentricities: | | Obsession(s): Space travel | | Assistant(s): Hans-Georg Clamann, Konrad Buettner, Siegfried J. Gerathewohl, and the brothers Fritz and Heinz Haber | | Nemesis: Nazi hunters, Nakam, human rights organisations | Mini-bio: born 15 June 1898, in Westphalia, Germany and educated at the University of Göttingen (Georg-August-Universität Göttingen) where he received doctorates in medicine and the liberal arts in 1922. In 1935, Strughold became director of the Research Insitiute for Aviation Medicine (Luftfahrtmedizinisches Forschungsinstitut), Berlin. As the head of Nazi Germany's Air Force Institute for Aviation Medicine, Strughold participated in a 1942 conference that discussed "experiments" on human beings carried out by the institute. The experiments included subjecting inmates of the Dachau concentration camp to torture and death by being immersed in frigid water, placed in air pressure chambers, forced to drink sea water and exposed to freezing temperatures. Strughold later denied approving the experiments and claimed he learned of them only after World War II. After the war, he was Professor of Physiology and Director, Physiological Institute, University of Heidelberg.
Strughold was brought to the United States as part of Operation Paperclip. He first coined the term "space medicine" in 1948 and was the first and only Professor of Space Medicine at the School of Aviation Medicine (SAM) at Randolph Air Force Base, Texas. In 1949 Strughold was made director of the Department of Space Medicine at the SAM (which is now the U.S. Air Force School of Aerospace Medicine (USAFSAM) at Brooks Air Force Base, Texas). He played an important role in developing the pressure suit worn by early American astronauts. He was a co-founder of the Space Medicine Branch of the Aerospace Medical Association in 1950. He was named Chief Scientist, Aerospace Medical Division in 1961. The aeromedical library at Brooks AFB was named after him in 1977, but later renamed because documents from the Nuremberg War Crimes Tribunal linked Strughold to medical experiments in which inmates from Dachau were tortured and killed.
Project Riese (a vast subterranean complex where aeronautic jet propulstion research and the Glocke Wunderwaffe or "superweapon" were being developed), Gross-Rosen concentration camp (a slave labour camp supplying workers to war material factories and "volunteers" for critical space medicine research), and the sanitarium in Bad Charlottenbrunn where human experimentation was conducted by Strughold, are all in Lower Silesia, south-east of Wroclaw, Poland, and are but scant miles from one another. The Nazi space programme, as separate from its rocket delivered weapons programme, are thus all neatly in one location. This lends weight to modern claims that Strughold took part in a reputed Nazi manned space flight attempt in the last days of the Second World War. Numerous modern conspiracy theories claim Strughold was a member of Schwarze Sonne (the Black Sun Society), Thule-Gesellschaft (the Thule Society), and the Vril Society, as well as had contact with extraterrestrials and other non-humans. | | | | | Time period: 1920s-1980s | | Location(s): Germany, Poland, USA | | Main objective(s): Manned space exploration and space travel, extra-solar planetary colonisation | | Fringe theories/concepts: see Your body clock. by Hubertus Strughold (Scribner, 1971); The green and red planet. by Hubertus Strughold (Univ. of New Mexico Press, 1953); Compendium of aerospace medicine. by Hubertus Strughold (USAF School of Aerospace Medicine, Aerospace Medical Division, 1977) | | Famous experiment(s): Reputed Nazi era manned space flight | | Technology (used/created): see Discoveries | | Most well-known for: see Discoveries | | Discoveries: Though denying knowledge of Nazi human experimentation, Strughold's continuing research based on Nazi human experiments created or improved methods of the treatment of congelatio (commonly named frostbite), hypothermia, and hyperthermia, improvements in hyperbaric oxygen therapy for decompression sickness (commonly named "the bends"), the development of treatments for the revival of drowning victims, development of treatments for and technology for the prevention of altitude sickness (including the pressure suit used by modern combat pilots), and improvements in dialysis treatment for sodium poisoning from ingestion of salt water, improvements in the field of medical anaesthesiology, and early stages in the development of hypothermic surgical techniques. | | Failures: the Nazi era Glocke Wunderwaffe or "superweapon" | | |
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