Science is a dangerous business, full of risky propositions and strange experiments. And sometimes, scientists wind up going to jail for their pains. Some of them for the integrity of science, and some for far more sordid reasons.
10. Stewart Nozette: From NASA to Fraud to Espionage to Prison
9. Sir Francis Bacon Was a Good Scientist and Bad Public Figure
8. Anna Freud Made the Right Enemies
7. Santiago Ramón Cajal is the Nobel Laureate and Preteen Hooligan
6. Johann Conrad Dippel Had a Prison Lab
5. Jack Kevorkian Was a Scientist and Not a Lawyer
4. Timothy Leary Was In As Many Prisons As Possible
3. Klaus Fuchs Took Everyone With Him
2. Richard Feynman Arrested For Breaking Into His Workplace
1. Galileo Was Jailed (In His Home) for Jerkiness
Klaus Fuchs Image: UK National Archives
Galileo Image: RMG