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STORIES FROM THE LIFE OF GREAT SCIENTISTS
John Napier used his Black Rooster to find out the servants stealing from his home
Those who have been saved from Titanic disaster, have been saved through Mr. Marconi and his invention
Smallpox Vaccine from Cowpox blisters - Edward Jenner
Charles Babbage’s steam powered Computers, weighing 13,600 kg
Carl Linnaeus, the second Adam: "God created, Linnaeus organized"
Claude Bernard’s Vivisection, suffering of Animals and a divorce!
Lavoisier’s respiration experiment in a guinea pig
The strange end of Andreas Vesalius, the founder of modern Anatomy
Brown rice, beri-beri and formulation of Vitamines
Christiaan Barnard - the superstar surgeon become the doctor of hearts (love)
"Eureka!" "Eureka!" - "I have found it!"
The curious prediction of Bhaskarachārya about his daughter Lilavathi
Clara Immerwahr’s suicide protesting use of Poisonous gages in World War 1
Charles Darwin’s advantages and disadvantages of Marriage
The Claw of Archimedes
The curious life of Blaise Pascal, like a religious fiction
The Archimedes Screw
Blaise Pascal illness
World’s first successful human-to-human heart transplant - Christiaan Barnard
Franck Report and dropping of atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Charles Darwin's illness
Galileo’s controversy with Church - Pope’s regret for how the Galileo affair was handled
Fritz Haber’s chemical warfare with poisonous gases and suicide of his wife
The Archimedes Heat Ray
Priestley Riots or Birmingham Riots
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
The first Asian and first non-White to get any Nobel Prize in Science
Charles Darwin's undiagnosed illness and relationship with his wife
Hennig Brand’s experiments for the philosopher's stone with 5500 litres of Unine
Leeuwenhoek’s critical secret of creating of Lenses
Mini Stories of Great Lives
"Fire. God of Abraham,Isaac & Jacob, not of the philosophers and the scholars…"
Gauss's request to inscribe a heptadecagon on his tombstone
Carl Friedrich Gauss's father wanted him to become a Mason
Pascal's last words being "May God never abandon me"
Alfred Nobel remained unmarried and had at least three loves
The first long distance automobile trip in History
Carl Friedrich Gauss - a child prodigy
Andreas Vesalius's body was thrown to the animals!
Husband would die if the marriage did not take place at a particular time!
Public dissection of the body of a notorious criminal
Alfred Nobel’s love letters
Pascal wore stockings steeped in brandy to warm his feet
The Republic needs neither scientists nor chemists
A test of the Archimedes heat ray
Vesalius wperformed an autopsy on an aristocrat when the heart was still beating?
The three culminating points in Ampère's life
Carl Linnaeus’s “Systema Naturae” was an eleven page work!
It took them only an instant to cut off his head!
The statue of Lavoisier with another person's head
Sickness is the natural state of Christians
C.V. Raman's confidence of winning the Nobel prize in 1930
Premature obituary and Nobel Prize
The ship shaker
A plot to kill Einstein was fined a mere six dollars!
The preserved brain of the Prince of Mathematicians
Sequence of deaths in the life of Carl Friedrich Gauss
"To the widow of Lavoisier, who was falsely convicted"
Alexander Fleming revolutionized all medicine in a day
Wife is dying - "Tell her to wait a moment till I'm done."
Ampère’s father was executed as a victim of French revolution
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