[The Conversation Africa] Dr Emmett Brown, Dr Victor Frankenstein and Dr Henry Jekyll are just three of the "crazy" scientists who populate fiction. Their methods were controversial and revolutionary - and I have always been especially drawn to the character of Dr Frankenstein, who was created by the English novelist Mary Shelley in 1818. I am fascinated by how he used electricity to study and understand the living. Every movement, feeling or thought is the result of electrical current in our body.
