Jack Kemp

I just remember that in high school, my chemistry teacher talked about a wealthy English lord who did scientific experisments but refused to associate with women. He even used to go for walks at night when no woman was likely to be out and about.

Here's what Wikipedia has to say about his personal habits:

C. was taciturn and solitary and regarded by many as eccentric. He only communicated with his female servants by notes. By one account, C. had a back staircase added to his house to avoid encountering his housekeeper because he was especially shy of women. The contemporary accounts of his personality have led some modern commentators, such as Oliver Sacks, to speculate that he had Asperger syndrome,[29] though he may merely have been anthropophobic.

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This "C" was Lord Henry Cavendish, the man who discovered something he called "inflammible air." Another scientist named Antoine Lavoisier repeated Cavendish's experiment and named the discovery the element HYDROGEN.

Yes, Lord Cavendish may have been very mentally ill and definitely didn't train younger female scientists, but the element Hydrogen was a great discovery that advanced the human knowledge of chemistry.

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