Summary
There is a fine line between crank and genius, and Oliver Heaviside certainly tiptoed his way down it when he lived in Lower Warberry Road, Torquay, in the 1920s.
He was an oddball, hermit-like figure to his neighbours but a hero in the world of science, who has craters on the Moon and Mars named after him, and is recognised as the man who laid the foundations of modern telecommunicationsSee the full content of this document
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Weird Life of Original Mad Scientist
Alan Heather is his first cousin, three generations removed, and as a small boy living in London he was vaguely aware that 'Uncle Ollie' had been a mathematical genius whose research into electromagnetism transformed international communications.
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