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Many of the world’s most notable, gifted, and creative scientists, such as Newton, Einstein, and Tesla, are suspected of having had autism, or at the very least, to fall somewhere “on the spectrum” of autism disorders. Recently, Buchen (2011) presented an article in Nature, suggesting that the reason so many notable scientists fall on this spectrum is because individuals with autism are drawn to the rules and formulas associated with scientific thinking.
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- Asperger Syndrome
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Madden, L., Dell’armo, K. (2016). Scientific Creativity within the Rules. In: Demetrikopoulos, M.K., Pecore, J.L. (eds) Interplay of Creativity and Giftedness in Science. Advances in Creativity and Giftedness. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-163-2_15
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