Science isn't always a matter of calm researchers prosaically watching test tubes do nothing, for hours. It usually is, but not always.
No, sometimes science is a matter of intense, dramatic or otherwise deadly experiments going disastrously wrong, with someone ending up dead at the end.
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They've plunged to their deaths, been irradiated and suffocated, all in the name of science. Meet 10 scientists who've killed themselves during their own experiments.