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STORIES FROM THE LIFE OF GREAT SCIENTISTS
Charles Darwin’s advantages and disadvantages of Marriage
The first Asian and first non-White to get any Nobel Prize in Science
The Claw of Archimedes
Fritz Haber’s chemical warfare with poisonous gases and suicide of his wife
Charles Darwin's undiagnosed illness and relationship with his wife
The Archimedes Screw
Carl Linnaeus, the second Adam: "God created, Linnaeus organized"
John Napier used his Black Rooster to find out the servants stealing from his home
Blaise Pascal illness
Priestley Riots or Birmingham Riots
Charles Darwin's illness
Clara Immerwahr’s suicide protesting use of Poisonous gages in World War 1
Hennig Brand’s experiments for the philosopher's stone with 5500 litres of Unine
Franck Report and dropping of atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Those who have been saved from Titanic disaster, have been saved through Mr. Marconi and his invention
"Eureka!" "Eureka!" - "I have found it!"
Christiaan Barnard - the superstar surgeon become the doctor of hearts (love)
Claude Bernard’s Vivisection, suffering of Animals and a divorce!
The Archimedes Heat Ray
The curious life of Blaise Pascal, like a religious fiction
Leeuwenhoek’s critical secret of creating of Lenses
Lavoisier’s respiration experiment in a guinea pig
Brown rice, beri-beri and formulation of Vitamines
The curious prediction of Bhaskarachārya about his daughter Lilavathi
Friedrich Gauss, as a child prodigy and his desire to inscribe a heptadecagon on the Tombstone
Galileo’s controversy with Church - Pope’s regret for how the Galileo affair was handled
Charles Babbage’s steam powered Computers, weighing 13,600 kg
World’s first successful human-to-human heart transplant - Christiaan Barnard
Obsessed with Anna Ivanova Popova, Dmitri Mendeleev threatened suicide if she refused
Smallpox Vaccine from Cowpox blisters - Edward Jenner
Mini Stories of Great Lives
Sickness is the natural state of Christians
Premature obituary and Nobel Prize
Public dissection of the body of a notorious criminal
Thermometer with 100 as the melting point of ice and 0 the boiling point of water
A cyanide-laced apple Alan Turing left half-eaten
Vesalius wperformed an autopsy on an aristocrat when the heart was still beating?
Andreas Vesalius's body was thrown to the animals!
Gauss's request to inscribe a heptadecagon on his tombstone
Pascal wore stockings steeped in brandy to warm his feet
Husband would die if the marriage did not take place at a particular time!
Alexander Fleming revolutionized all medicine in a day
Alhazen, the father of modern optics, feigned madness
It took them only an instant to cut off his head!
"Fire. God of Abraham,Isaac & Jacob, not of the philosophers and the scholars…"
A test of the Archimedes heat ray
Archimedes repelled Roman attack with burning-glass!
The merchant of death is dead
Carl Friedrich Gauss's father wanted him to become a Mason
Sequence of deaths in the life of Carl Friedrich Gauss
All telephones in United States stilled ringing for a silent minute.
Carl Linnaeus thought of himself as a second Adam
The Golden Crown
Carl Linnaeus’s “Systema Naturae” was an eleven page work!
Archimedes and his mathematical instruments
Wife is dying - "Tell her to wait a moment till I'm done."
Alexander Graham Bell's mother and wife were deaf
"To the widow of Lavoisier, who was falsely convicted"
The prayer of Ampere on his wife's death
Alfred Nobel remained unmarried and had at least three loves
A plot to kill Einstein was fined a mere six dollars!
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