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STORIES FROM THE LIFE OF GREAT SCIENTISTS
Franck Report and dropping of atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Christiaan Barnard - the superstar surgeon become the doctor of hearts (love)
"Eureka!" "Eureka!" - "I have found it!"
Blaise Pascal illness
Priestley Riots or Birmingham Riots
John Napier used his Black Rooster to find out the servants stealing from his home
Hennig Brand’s experiments for the philosopher's stone with 5500 litres of Unine
Carl Linnaeus, the second Adam: "God created, Linnaeus organized"
Charles Darwin's illness
Charles Darwin’s advantages and disadvantages of Marriage
The curious life of Blaise Pascal, like a religious fiction
Charles Darwin's undiagnosed illness and relationship with his wife
Brown rice, beri-beri and formulation of Vitamines
Lavoisier’s respiration experiment in a guinea pig
The curious prediction of Bhaskarachārya about his daughter Lilavathi
Fritz Haber’s chemical warfare with poisonous gases and suicide of his wife
Galileo’s controversy with Church - Pope’s regret for how the Galileo affair was handled
Leeuwenhoek’s critical secret of creating of Lenses
The first Asian and first non-White to get any Nobel Prize in Science
Friedrich Gauss, as a child prodigy and his desire to inscribe a heptadecagon on the Tombstone
Obsessed with Anna Ivanova Popova, Dmitri Mendeleev threatened suicide if she refused
World’s first successful human-to-human heart transplant - Christiaan Barnard
Those who have been saved from Titanic disaster, have been saved through Mr. Marconi and his invention
The Archimedes Screw
Charles Babbage’s steam powered Computers, weighing 13,600 kg
Claude Bernard’s Vivisection, suffering of Animals and a divorce!
The Claw of Archimedes
Smallpox Vaccine from Cowpox blisters - Edward Jenner
The Archimedes Heat Ray
Clara Immerwahr’s suicide protesting use of Poisonous gages in World War 1
Mini Stories of Great Lives
Alan Turing was criminally prosecuted for homosexuality
Public dissection of the body of a notorious criminal
Pascal wore stockings steeped in brandy to warm his feet
Pascal's last words being "May God never abandon me"
Alexander Graham Bell's mother and wife were deaf
A test of the Archimedes heat ray
The prayer of Ampere on his wife's death
Archimedes repelled Roman attack with burning-glass!
A plot to kill Einstein was fined a mere six dollars!
Leeuwenhoek's most critical secret creating Lenses
Alfred Nobel remained unmarried and had at least three loves
All telephones in United States stilled ringing for a silent minute.
Sickness is the natural state of Christians
Carl Friedrich Gauss - a child prodigy
"Fire. God of Abraham,Isaac & Jacob, not of the philosophers and the scholars…"
It took them only an instant to cut off his head!
Alhazen, the father of modern optics, feigned madness
The merchant of death is dead
Albert Einstein’s creature who equal, as strong and independent
C.V. Raman's confidence of winning the Nobel prize in 1930
Gauss's request to inscribe a heptadecagon on his tombstone
The Republic needs neither scientists nor chemists
Carl Linnaeus thought of himself as a second Adam
People eating brown rice were less vulnerable to beri-beri
Husband would die if the marriage did not take place at a particular time!
Ampère’s father was executed as a victim of French revolution
Thermometer with 100 as the melting point of ice and 0 the boiling point of water
The Golden Crown
"To the widow of Lavoisier, who was falsely convicted"
Carl Friedrich Gauss's father wanted him to become a Mason
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