A
Serbian scientist born in
Lika,
Croatia. Got higher education in
Prague,
Czech Republic. Many of his inventions were stolen by
Thomas Alva Edison. When
Westinghouse was doing bad, he released the company of paying any
royalty to him. Invented the
Alternating Current (
AC)
generator, the
Tesla coil, a crude
radar, and many other things (including a
Tesla Tower, often seen in
Command and Conquer computer game). Became seriously mentally ill (
paranoid schizophrenia).
Due mainly to the
paranoid schizophrenia he picked up in his late thirties, he was completely ignored in the scientific circles. Many years later, a magnetic unit
tesla was given name in his honor. Interestingly enough, many books still refuse to use this unit.
Died ill, ridiculed and completely poor in
Croatia in 1943.