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  2. Professor Calculus - Wikipedia

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    Calculus first appeared in Red Rackham's Treasure (more specifically in the newspaper prepublication of 4–5 March 1943 [2]), and was the result of Hergé's long quest to find the archetypal mad scientist or absent-minded professor. Although Hergé had included characters with similar traits in earlier stories, Calculus developed into a much ...

  3. List of fictional scientists and engineers - Wikipedia

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    Seth Brundle – eccentric but brilliant physicist who invented the telepods, machines capable of teleportation; Sebastian Caine; Dr. Miles Bennett Dyson (Terminator 2: Judgment Day) – when he learns of the destructive destiny of his future creation, Dyson destroys his research

  4. Mad scientist - Wikipedia

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    A common stereotype of a mad scientist. The mad scientist (also mad doctor or mad professor) is a stock character of a scientist who is perceived as "mad, bad and dangerous to know" [1] or "insane" owing to a combination of unusual or unsettling personality traits and the unabashedly ambitious, taboo or hubristic nature of their experiments.

  5. Griffin (The Invisible Man) - Wikipedia

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    The Invisible Man's Revenge (1944): Jon Hall stars as Robert Griffin / Invisible Man. Griffin is a madman who seeks revenge on those who have wronged him, and becomes invisible upon experimentation by eccentric scientist Dr. Peter Drury and uses it to get revenge on his former friends and business partners turned enemies, Sir Jasper and Lady ...

  6. John Malkovich plays an eccentric, hip-thrusting pop star in ...

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    The actor tells BI he has no idea why Green thought of him for the role. John Malkovich knows he isn't exactly the first person you'd think of to play a gyrating glam-rock icon decked out in a ...

  7. Marshall Hall (mathematician) - Wikipedia

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    He proposed Hall's conjecture on the differences between perfect squares and perfect cubes, which remains an open problem as of 2015. Hall's work [6] on continued fractions showed that the Lagrange spectrum includes all numbers greater than 6. This interval is known as Hall's Ray. The lower limit of Hall's ray was established by Freiman in 1975.

  8. “Blink Twice” Ending Explained: What Was Really ... - AOL

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    Blink Twice is not based on a true story, but it was inspired by some of Kravitz's real-life experiences as a woman in Hollywood. She began writing the film in 2017 amid the #MeToo movement.

  9. A Nobel Prize-winning scientist who wrote a book on ... - AOL

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    A Nobel Prize-winning scientist who wrote a book on aging cycles 6 miles a day at age 72. ... men who reported having all five quality sleep measures were expected to live 4.7 years longer than ...