Danger has always been associated with creativity, but death? These bright minds were done in by their own inventions.
Marie Curie: The first person to win two Nobel Prizes, Curie pioneered cancer treatment with radioactive isotopes, which she toted around in her pockets. Whoops. She died from aplastic anaemia in 1934 by being exposed to radiation in her research shed. Her research papers from the late 1800s are still too dangerous to handle because of their radioactivity.
William Bullock: Body parts and machine gears don’t mix. Bullock revolutionized the printing industry in 1863 when he invented the efficient and fast web rotary printing press. Though a brilliant inventor, Bullock was no genius as a handyman. After kicking a belt onto pulley in 1867, his leg was crushed by his own printing press. He died days later of gangrene.