Saturday 9 April 2011

Lise Meitner, Issac Newton and ...Josef Mengele?

I have to say he does have a rather bizzare similarity in looks with Brian May. It's like looking at an alternate universe verion of him. Anyhow, the full body drawings of Mr Newton/ May are coming soon.

Lise Meitner was part of the original team who discovered neuclear fission. Her work on this was effectively stolen by a collegue, Otto Han. He got a Nobel Prize, but some historians believe she should have had the award, as though he said his chemistry alone had discovered it, he could not explain it.
Not to say that she didn't get any awards for her work, but she is an example of female scientist's work being overlooked.

Finally, we come to one of the worst monsters in history. Pretty much a literal mad scientist who's experiments where only for his sick gratification. No he didn't make any Frankenstein-esque beasts, nor horrid viruses like you'd see in old B-movies. This man was a sick individual as where the people who hired and worked with him.



Josef Mengele, otherwise known as The Angel of Death. A German SS officer and Physician in Auschwitz-Birkenau. He initially started out selecting who was to live and who was to die in the camps, but soon started experiments on selected victims, including the children. This included creating Siamese twins by sewing together two individuals (often without anesthetic) trying to change the eye colour of an inmate, often killing or blinding them and sterilising children. I don't want to say any more because frankly I feel sick already.

The frontal picture may look a bit off in the eyes, but the photo it comes from is damn creepy to look at. He must have had lazy eye at some point because his eyes pretty much  do look like that in the pic.



Ughhh. I'll continue with posting again sometime. Perhaps do some for the cop project. Maybe some random doodles. We'll see.

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