Halloween Special: Graves of Famous Scientists
October 29th, 2007
In further celebration of the greatest holiday of the year I've compiled a terrifying collection of scientists graves. A lot of cool scientists were cremated but many have extravagant tombs which seal them safely 6-feet below us, hopefully preventing or at least delaying a mass zombie scientist attack. (See Zombie Stephen Hawking post for what to expect).
Boltzmann's grave is probably my favorite and clearly shows how terrifying of a zombie he would be. If my body can't be rocketed into space after I die then I'd like a nice stone bust of me making a mean face. Not to mention a nice equation including my own mathematical constant.
Karl Schwarzchild currently rests peacefully under a ridged black planet. I'm guessing it was the closest thing to a Black Hole they could put on a grave stone.
Charles Darwin was buried at Westminister Abbey along with great people like Newton. Note the lack of an elaborate stone Darwin reclining on The Origin of Species surrounded by monkeys below the word Evolution.
Here's Newton's grave, widely popularized by a Da Vinci Code riddle. Note the reclining statue of Newton resting on his famous books surrounded by winged boys below the Goddess of Astronomy.
Since it's an equal rights zombie invasion female scientists like Rosalind Franklin should also be feared.
Gauss has a great grave and I'd definitely like to calculate the flux through it. I wouldn't be surprised if there were mysterious magnetic fields emitting from below ground on Halloween night.
Max Planck's grave is a solid concrete monolith, much like his work in quantum theory. How appropriate.
Don't worry about Niels Bohr, he's sealed under an owl.
R.I.P. Gregor Mendel!
Richard Feynman and his wife have a modest grave their thirst for brains will be anything but modest.

October 30th, 2007 at 11:36 pm
Boltzmann is totally wearing shoulder pads there! Those are NOT his real shoulders.
July 31st, 2008 at 12:43 pm
I found this quite by accident and so happy I did. This is fascinating. Thank you for a look at some of my favorite people's final resting place. Good commentary too.
February 2nd, 2009 at 11:25 am
I would like to use the picture of Boltzmann's gravestone in a book. Is the picture protected by copyright?
April 26th, 2009 at 2:18 pm
i can't believe that's rosalind franklind's grave.
i can't even read what it says.
May 21st, 2009 at 4:55 am
I think this is good site because i have found out where charles darwin was buiried and that is what i didn't knw before i looked at this site.
January 3rd, 2010 at 10:22 pm
This is a well elaborated website, you took the time to get pictures of the final resting places of some of the greatest of this world, and you added to it a touch of "funny". Good job my freind