Word: madness
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...seemed to get mad,” he said...
...turned out to be utterly compatible. "Jim and I hit it off immediately," writes Crick in his book, What Mad Pursuit, "partly because our interests were astonishingly similar and partly, I suspect, because a certain youthful arrogance, a ruthlessness and an impatience with sloppy thinking came naturally to both of us." (Crick had got in trouble more than once at the Cavendish for pointing out the sloppy thinking of his bosses...
Stanley Prusiner discovers prions, the infectious proteins responsible for scrapie and mad-cow disease...
Spector arrived at the club after a late dinner-and-Daiquiri date with another woman. The first superstar record producer and a millionaire at 21, Spector, now 62, was the mad genius who perfected the pop single with his lavishly textured "wall of sound" studio technique, crafting hits for the Ronettes, the Beatles, Ike and Tina Turner and the Righteous Brothers, among others. But drugs, booze and paranoia ended the chart-topping reign of the man Tom Wolfe called the "first tycoon of teen." Spector went into seclusion for years and took to running around his hilltop mansion...
...hands and a marketing background to help him get a book into stores, he started Eiffel Press in 1999. Fried hired a book packager to help design the publication, and in 2000, he self-published Memoirs of a Papillon: The Canine Guide to Living with Humans Without Going Mad...