From: Robert J. Bradbury (bradbury@aeiveos.com)
Date: Thu May 01 2003 - 09:57:34 MDT
The price of genius
Isaac Newton suffered a nervous breakdown at the age of 50.
Throughout his life he was taciturn, had few friends and was often
so engrossed in his work that he forgot to eat. Albert Einstein
repeated sentences obsessively until he was seven years old, became
a notoriously confusing lecturer and was generally acknowledged to
be a difficult person. Both men were certainly geniuses, but did
they also have something else in common? Simon Baron-Cohen has
assessed the personality traits of both men, and believes they may
have shown signs of Asperger syndrome, a form of autism...
http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99993676
R.
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