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10 Greatest Minds who Committed Suicide

So frequently, in the field of the arts and sciences, the greatest minds carry on with tormented lives. In many cases this has lead to self-murder. Here are ten greatest scientists who changed the world as we know it though their contributions and discoveries but died by suicide.

10 Greatest Minds who Committed Suicide In memory of Alan Turing Complied by: Manjunath.R #16/1, 8th Main Road, Shivanagar, Rajajinagar, Bangalore560010, Karnataka, India *Corresponding Author Email: manjunath5496@gmail.com *Website: http://www.myw3schools.com/ 1 Alan Turing Cause of death: Suicide by eating an apple laced with cyanide Founding father of artificial intelligence and of modern cognitive science 2 Wallace Carothers Cause of death: Suicide by drinking potassium cyanide American chemist who developed nylon 3 George Eastman Cause of death: Suicide by gunshot The pioneer of popular photography and motion picture film 4 Nicolas Leblanc Cause of death: Suicide by gunshot French surgeon and chemist who discovered how to manufacture soda from common salt 5 Edwin Armstrong Cause of death: Suicide by jumping from his apartment window in New York One of the most prolific inventors of the radio era 6 Hans Berger Cause of death: Suicide by hanging The inventor of electroencephalography 7 Valery Legasov Cause of death: Suicide by hanging Mainly remembered for his work as Chief Scientific Advisor of the commission investigating the Chernobyl disaster 8 Ludwig Boltzmann Cause of death: Suicide by hanging Austrian physicist who is known mostly for his work on statistical mechanics and the field of thermodynamics Ludwig Boltzmann's grave in Vienna's Central Cemetery bears a cryptic epitaph: S = kB log W 9 David Kelly Cause of death: Suicide by slashing his wrist with a blunt gardening knife Biological weapons scientist who was an employee of the United Kingdom Ministry of Defence and a former United Nations weapons inspector in Iraq 10 Viktor Meyer Cause of death: Suicide by taking cyanide Best known for inventing an apparatus for determining vapor densities and for discovering thiophene His tomb in Heidelberg