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This guy I think has been one of the honest and benign scientist; his aim- to follow his passion and do what his heart says, his work yard- his own kitchen, but that is fine what is wrong with him.
Well, he wanted to emulate nuclear fission in his kitchen!. The poor 'scientist' was arrested for endangering citizens life and for illegal possession of nuclear material. All of this started when a nuclear
laboratory in Sweden received a phone call from an 'amateur' nuclear scientist enquiring whether he can make a nuclear reactor at home!. They inturn alerted the police who arrested him swiftly. The 'scientist' was found to be in possession of certain nuke material and chemicals. Apparently one of his efforts exploded as per his blog.
Now it is well known that society has not been too good to scienists...but the poor 'amateur nuclear scientist' must have not known it...cruel society, aint it?
you can read the 'poor mans' story HERE
courtesy: The Hindu Photo courtesy: wikipedia
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