Talk:The Proverbial Apple/@comment-31772644-20170620125658/@comment-5782071-20170621000924

I'll search for an origin myself, in case one is decided to be required. Interestingly enough, one of the results of my search was Robert Oppenheimer, who confessed to have once left an apple doused with noxious chemicals on the desk of his tutor Patrick Blackett, with whom he developed an antagonistic relationship. Unfortunately, from a quick scan of his Wikipedia page Blackett doesn't seem to have been a person involved in the medical field.