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STORIES FROM THE LIFE OF GREAT SCIENTISTS
Galileo’s controversy with Church - Pope’s regret for how the Galileo affair was handled
Friedrich Gauss, as a child prodigy and his desire to inscribe a heptadecagon on the Tombstone
The first Asian and first non-White to get any Nobel Prize in Science
Smallpox Vaccine from Cowpox blisters - Edward Jenner
"Eureka!" "Eureka!" - "I have found it!"
Claude Bernard’s Vivisection, suffering of Animals and a divorce!
The curious life of Blaise Pascal, like a religious fiction
Clara Immerwahr’s suicide protesting use of Poisonous gages in World War 1
Leeuwenhoek’s critical secret of creating of Lenses
Charles Babbage’s steam powered Computers, weighing 13,600 kg
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
The Archimedes Heat Ray
Christiaan Barnard - the superstar surgeon become the doctor of hearts (love)
Blaise Pascal illness
Fritz Haber’s chemical warfare with poisonous gases and suicide of his wife
Those who have been saved from Titanic disaster, have been saved through Mr. Marconi and his invention
Obsessed with Anna Ivanova Popova, Dmitri Mendeleev threatened suicide if she refused
World’s first successful human-to-human heart transplant - Christiaan Barnard
The Claw of Archimedes
Carl Linnaeus, the second Adam: "God created, Linnaeus organized"
Charles Darwin’s advantages and disadvantages of Marriage
Priestley Riots or Birmingham Riots
Charles Darwin's illness
Lavoisier’s respiration experiment in a guinea pig
The curious prediction of Bhaskarachārya about his daughter Lilavathi
Brown rice, beri-beri and formulation of Vitamines
Franck Report and dropping of atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Charles Darwin's undiagnosed illness and relationship with his wife
The Archimedes Screw
Mini Stories of Great Lives
"To the widow of Lavoisier, who was falsely convicted"
A plot to kill Einstein was fined a mere six dollars!
Leeuwenhoek's most critical secret creating Lenses
C.V. Raman's confidence of winning the Nobel prize in 1930
The statue of Lavoisier with another person's head
Carl Linnaeus’s “Systema Naturae” was an eleven page work!
A cyanide-laced apple Alan Turing left half-eaten
Gauss's request to inscribe a heptadecagon on his tombstone
A test of the Archimedes heat ray
Sickness is the natural state of Christians
Archimedes's Last Problem
The Republic needs neither scientists nor chemists
Thermometer with 100 as the melting point of ice and 0 the boiling point of water
Alfred Nobel remained unmarried and had at least three loves
The ship shaker
Alan Turing was criminally prosecuted for homosexuality
Husband would die if the marriage did not take place at a particular time!
The prayer of Ampere on his wife's death
Ampère’s father was executed as a victim of French revolution
Andreas Vesalius's body was thrown to the animals!
"Fire. God of Abraham,Isaac & Jacob, not of the philosophers and the scholars…"
All telephones in United States stilled ringing for a silent minute.
Wife is dying - "Tell her to wait a moment till I'm done."
People eating brown rice were less vulnerable to beri-beri
Carl Linnaeus thought of himself as a second Adam
Alfred Nobel’s love letters
The preserved brain of the Prince of Mathematicians
Alexander Fleming revolutionized all medicine in a day
Pascal wore stockings steeped in brandy to warm his feet
The three culminating points in Ampère's life
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