He was so shy around women that he had to communicate with his female servants exclusively through writing, and so uncomfortable around his fellow scientists that he built his library four miles away from his house'just so that people wishing to use 
He was so shy around women that he had to communicate with his female servants exclusively through writing, and so uncomfortable around his fellow scientists that he built his library four miles away from his house'just so that people wishing to use it would not bother to ask him for permission. FTP, name this eccentric English scientist and pioneer of electricity, the namesake of Cambridge's Physics Laboratory.
He was so shy around women that he had to communicate with his female servants exclusively through writing, and so uncomfortable around his fellow scientists that he built his library four miles away from his house'just so that people wishing to use it would not bother to ask him for permission.
Henry {Cavendish}