I saw The Aviator a couple of days ago and that got me thinking. Howard Hughes is an almost iconic name in biology/medical research as the Howard Hughes Medical Institiute is very well known and being a HHMI investigator is something everone aspires to be.
Knowing all this, it was strange to see this strange obsessive-compulsive man on screen. I was having a hard time putting the two ends together. Anyway, I searched the net and there's a decent biography of his life at Wikipedia and this article at famous-texans gives you the lowdown, especially all the spy-politics that you dont find in the movie.
It seems scientific research can have very strange origins indeed.
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