Lloyd, John and Mitchinson, John (2009) The QI book of the dead. Faber and Faber, 2009.
Hans Christian Andersen, Charles Babbage, Jeremy Bentham, Salvador Dali, grapheme-colour synaesthete scientist Richard Feynman, Henry Ford, Buckminster Fuller, Francis Galton, Oliver Heaviside, Howard Hughes, Alfred Kinsey, Ada Lovelace, Isaac Newton, Nikola Tesla and H. G. Wells are some of the unusual people discussed in this book. Newton is identified as a possible case of Asperger syndrome, based on his obsessiveness, on page 14. Tesla is identified as autistic with OCD on page 344. An entertaining and interesting book full of eccentricity, but not a work of great scholarship. Recommended for informative fun.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/QI-Book-Dead-John-Lloyd/dp/0571244904
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_QI_Book_of_the_Dead
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