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The most badass physicist you’ve probably never heard of

Meet bad-ass mofo François Arago, in a profile by Greg Gbur. Fool got swagga.

When he was seven years old, he tried to stab a Spanish solider with a lance.

When he was eighteen, he talked a friend out of assassinating Napoleon.

He once angered an archbishop so much that the holy man punched him in the face.

He has negotiated with bandits, been chased by a mob, broken out of prison.

He is: François Arago, the most interesting physicist in the world”

(via io9)

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