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Around 1870 James Clerk Maxwell–one of the great minds in the history of modern physics–responded to a request by Francis Galton to fill out a questionnaire for Galton’s work on the characteristics of people-of-genius, and published as English Men of Science, their Nature and Nurture (1874).
This is a set of Maxwell’s responses about himself, as well as his mother and father: