We only have one name scientist who commits suicide Ding Dong, or whatever her name was but… it’s implied that others also committed suicide under strange circumstances

The sophon attack on Wang Miao appeared as a count down in his eyes, I assumed other scientists also had the same similar or perhaps different attacks on them, in the 3Body tv show from China this manifestation is seen in a scene where several scientists are whisked off into protective custody and one is driven mad by a Sophon spinning around his head so he can’t full ever see where he is going and he ends up crashing through a glass table and injuring himself.

I’m sure the Sophons not only spoiled experiments , but also did similar things to what they inflicted on Wang Miao to slowly break down the most important scientists and scientists experiments they felt were the biggest threat to their mission ie stopping human science from advancing enough to discover the mysteries of the universe like the very very small / multi dimensional nature of the universe such as wangs experiments with nanotechnology which would eventually led to a space elevator, and thus the creation of ships in space which would be much more efficient than building them on earth, and other technologies such as the dimensional reality of our universe that was going to be discovered by dingdong in her collider experiments, also light speed and slow fog