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List of inventors killed by their own invention
- rexstjohn 4y agoThis list is missing Guillotine from the extended “legend” section. He wasn’t himself guillotined but for awhile there was confusion that he was: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph-Ignace_Guillotin https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph-Ignace_Guillotin It’s locked otherwise I’d add it. Another good one is the Soviet botanists who collected seeds and then starved to death refusing to eat them. I could see that can count: https://www.opindia.com/2022/01/the-siege-of-leningrad-russian-scientists-starved-themselves-to-death-to-preserve-vavilov-seed-bank/ https://www.opindia.com/2022/01/the-siege-of-leningrad-russi...