While there were numerous studies that said that Charles Darwin, the brain behind the theory of evolution, had Autism, Prof Michael Fitzgerald, an Autism expert from Dublin's Trinty College, confirmed that Darwin had Asperger’s syndrome.
Prof Fitzgerald said: "It is suggested that the same genes that produce autism and Asperger's syndrome are also responsible for great creativity and originality.
"Asperger's syndrome gave Darwin the capacity to hyperfocus, the extra capacity for persistence, the enormous ability to see detail that other people missed, the endless energy for a lifetime dedication to a narrow task, and the independence of mind so critical to original research," he mentioned at the annual meeting of the Royal College of Psychiatrists' Faculty of Academic Psychiatry.