Wilhelm Reich

Famous and controversial scientist/psychotherapist who founded the science of orgonomy, the study of life essence. This school of study had a wide array of principles ranging from the belief that the human muscular structure was directly affected by negative emotional stimuli, to a concept that human life essence, if properley harnessed, could accomplish such tasks as manipulating the weather and curing disease. Reich desisgned several large, booth-shaped machines made from organic marerials and laced with various pipes and metallic objects to assist in this process. After several years of this study, he was finally convicted for practicing fraudulent medicine and was sentenced to prison in Pennsylvania, where he would eventually die of a heart attack in 1957.