@xgranade knew about the cat being a shit metaphor, mostly knew that a lot of his research was still very relevant in quantum mechanics despite that
but holy shit, had no idea about the abuse, and this is a horrible thing to just find out about
it's honestly kinda buried in his Wikipedia article but it does seem to have a decent summary of the situation which is just. wow. physics as a field is so fucking irredeemable sometimes and this takes the cake