Austrian farm hand Claus Wiener is the only unskilled labourer in history to have had an article published in Scientific American. Wiener's paper detailed a technique for performing emergency skin grafts on pigs, developed when, in 1948, he performed just such a skin graft on a pig after a freak fishing accident, using only a fish hook, a yard of line, and extracts of a ham and cheese sandwich.

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