TOP 10 deaths of outstanding scientists that remained unsolved

2024 Author: Seth Attwood | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 15:55

During the first 16 years of the XXI century, one could often read in the news about another sudden death of a prominent scientist. Some were simply killed, others died due to accidents or under circumstances similar to those.

Rodney Marks, Australian astrophysicist who died from methanol poisoning on May 12, 2000. The official version assumes suicide, but much in this case remained a mystery. Shortly before his death, Marx worked for the National Science Foundation on a research project in Antarctica. The NSF representatives were extremely reluctant to testify, which made the investigation much more difficult.

Body famous biophysicist Don Wileydiscovered in Mississippi on December 20, 2001. The FBI concluded that the death was accidental, as a result of falling from the bridge, despite the two-meter fence. Many believe that Dr. Wylie was one of the few scientists able to understand the origins of anthrax and was killed because of it.

February 27, 2002 geneticist Tanya Holzmayer opened the door, thinking that they had brought pizza, and was killed by a pistol shot at point-blank range. The killer, her former colleague Guyang Matthew Huang, soon committed suicide. Most likely, he killed Holzmeier out of revenge for being fired from his job. Their company, PPD Discovery, declined to comment to the press, adding to the mystery.

Cytologist Benito Ke was robbed and killed on the grounds of Miami Medical School, near his laboratory, on November 12, 2001. Four men in dark clothing and armed with bats were seen in the vicinity. The police, however, said that Dr. Ke died of cardiac arrest. Considering his work on many dangerous viruses, including HIV, this has generated a lot of rumors.

Robert Leslie Burghoff On November 20, 2003, he was hit to death by a truck, but not on the road, but on the territory of the Texas Medical Center. The driver of the car fled the scene of the crime. Burhoff was a biochemist who studied influenza outbreaks and an expert on genetic mapping. The murder mystery is believed to have something to do with his work.

In 2002, two prominent Russian scientists died at once - first Andrey Brushlinsky, Director of the Research Institute of Psychology of the Russian Academy of Sciences, and a few days later - Head of the Department of Microbiology of the Russian State Medical University Valery Korshunov … Both attacks were considered accidental by investigators, but this only made conspiracy theorists wary.

Eugene Mallow, an American research engineer and advocate of cold fusion, was found dead on his driveway in May 2004. The investigation showed that he was killed by the tenant's son along with his friend, who then staged the scene of the crime as a robbery. Despite the obvious evidence, the killers were arrested only many years later.

Nuclear physicist John Mullen died unexpectedly from poisoning with arsenic mixed into his drink in June 2004. Suspicion fell on his girlfriend, Tamara Rallo, who was then found dead in her own home. Either she committed suicide, or she was killed, but one way or another - the trial of the murder of John Mullen never took place.

Ian Langford, a leading environmental risk researcher at the University of East Anglia, was found dead in his home on February 11, 2002. The circumstances of death cannot be called anything other than strange - the half-naked body of the scientist, covered with wounds, was located under the chair. Unofficial sources claim that almost the entire room was stained with his blood.

Jung Im, a distinguished chemist and former professor at the University of Missoura, was assassinated in 2005. His body was found by firefighters in the trunk of a burning car, on the third level of the parking lot. From the stab wounds to the chest, he was dead before the fire. Ten years later, criminal Timothy Hoag was accused of murder. He soon committed suicide by jumping from the roof of the same parking lot where Jung Im died.

Man is mortal, and mortal suddenly, and therefore in such cases often do not see anything strange. Which does not bring satisfaction to lovers of conspiracy theories who are looking for a secret background in the deaths of scientists. It may be there, but it's almost impossible to know for sure.