Simon died on February 18th, 1951, just before his eightieth birthday. At the height of his career he gained a reputation as a world-renowned psychiatrist and criminologist, but he quickly faded into relative obscurity after his death. Perhaps this was because his ideas about the neurological basis of criminality were simplistic and uninfluential. Even his greatest scientific achievement, the conception of the retinal scan, is not readily associated with him today. Regardless, Simon was an interesting character; on top of his professional work, he was also a champion angler and surfer. And although now largely forgotten, his work is a fascinating - if largely inconsequential - chapter in the history of neurocriminology.
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