I'll take your word for the cultural benchmark, it didn't make as much impact on the rest of the world as it did the states (I hadn't heard of it until 1997)

Speaking of 1985, and crazy scientists you get Doc Brown. Now he was a cool version of Einstein, hair and all. Well actually Einstein is probably considered fairly cool for a scientist, the crazy tongue photo gives the impression he didn't take himself too seriously.

Darwin vs Einstein, who is cooler?