the Peculiar

-Four Japanese scientists have got Nobel Prize in Physics and Chemistry this year.
I think all of them have something more or less peculiar natures.
-The Japanese media is highly praising them after the announcement of
the Nobel winners.
However, generally speaking, they seem to be such a type of person
who many people in Japan don't like.
-People in Japan tend to feel sympathy toward those who think and act
same as other persons.
-But this type of persons don't mind how the society thinks about them.
They just feel happy as long as they can do what they want.
-Being the peculiar doesn't seem to have any meaning for them.
But for the society it is crucially important that they have
peculiar persons within itself.
The society mostly can change by contribution of those peculiar
persons after all.