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Extreme
intelligence often comes with extreme eccentricity, as you are well
aware. After all, the archetypical mad scientist of the movies has its
real-world precedents. Any list of mad scientists has some that you are
familiar with, but you may not be familiar with all ten of these crazy
creatives. Did you know about the work of Ilya Ivanov?
In
1924 the Bolshevik government granted Ivanov permission to leave the
country for the express purpose of breeding hybrid ape-humans. In the
summer of 1926, Ivanov, by now in Paris, grafted a woman’s ovary into a
chimp named Nora and tried to fertilize her with human sperm. In
November that year, he travelled to Africa and inseminated a trio of
chimps with yet more human sperm. Then when none of the animals fell
pregnant, he changed tactics and instead tried to find Soviet women who
would willingly be inseminated with chimp sperm – something for which he
acquired no less than five volunteers. However, before the experiments
could get properly underway, a Stalinist removal of scientists resulted
in him being sent away to Kazakhstan, where he died within two years of
his arrival.
Believe it or not, that's not the craziest of the bunch. Read more horror stories in the list
10 Incredible Real-Life Mad Scientists.
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