he was the worst practical physist ever...
managed to break not one but three of those vacuum flasks with the anode and cathode in so can show a circle of luminous electrons (can't remember the experiment name now, or why we did it).
he did it by mis-reading the voltage levels and putting the decimal point in the wrong place.... there was a nice arc and not much afterwards.....
(sleipnir, Sun 6 Jul 2008, 0:59, archived)

aaah the theorist that tried to experiment
tis probably Thompson's charge to mass ratio experiment. The only thing I managed to break in a physics experiment was a coke bottle...
(k3b/-\b oh babydoll so much justice., Sun 6 Jul 2008, 1:02, archived)

the guy was a liability
Managed to electrocute me several times with one of the those step up/down transformers... massive voltage nearly no current, accidentally touches me... ouch.
(sleipnir, Sun 6 Jul 2008, 1:04, archived)