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STORIES FROM THE LIFE OF GREAT SCIENTISTS
World’s first successful human-to-human heart transplant - Christiaan Barnard
Charles Darwin’s advantages and disadvantages of Marriage
Friedrich Gauss, as a child prodigy and his desire to inscribe a heptadecagon on the Tombstone
John Napier used his Black Rooster to find out the servants stealing from his home
Fritz Haber’s chemical warfare with poisonous gases and suicide of his wife
Franck Report and dropping of atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Leeuwenhoek’s critical secret of creating of Lenses
Galileo’s controversy with Church - Pope’s regret for how the Galileo affair was handled
Lavoisier’s respiration experiment in a guinea pig
Charles Darwin's undiagnosed illness and relationship with his wife
The curious life of Blaise Pascal, like a religious fiction
The curious prediction of Bhaskarachārya about his daughter Lilavathi
Brown rice, beri-beri and formulation of Vitamines
Those who have been saved from Titanic disaster, have been saved through Mr. Marconi and his invention
Charles Darwin's illness
The Archimedes Screw
Claude Bernard’s Vivisection, suffering of Animals and a divorce!
The Archimedes Heat Ray
The Claw of Archimedes
Obsessed with Anna Ivanova Popova, Dmitri Mendeleev threatened suicide if she refused
"Eureka!" "Eureka!" - "I have found it!"
The first Asian and first non-White to get any Nobel Prize in Science
Smallpox Vaccine from Cowpox blisters - Edward Jenner
Carl Linnaeus, the second Adam: "God created, Linnaeus organized"
Christiaan Barnard - the superstar surgeon become the doctor of hearts (love)
Hennig Brand’s experiments for the philosopher's stone with 5500 litres of Unine
Priestley Riots or Birmingham Riots
Blaise Pascal illness
Charles Babbage’s steam powered Computers, weighing 13,600 kg
Clara Immerwahr’s suicide protesting use of Poisonous gages in World War 1
Mini Stories of Great Lives
Ampère’s father was executed as a victim of French revolution
A cyanide-laced apple Alan Turing left half-eaten
Carl Friedrich Gauss's father wanted him to become a Mason
A plot to kill Einstein was fined a mere six dollars!
The merchant of death is dead
Carl Linnaeus thought of himself as a second Adam
The Republic needs neither scientists nor chemists
Thermometer with 100 as the melting point of ice and 0 the boiling point of water
Vesalius wperformed an autopsy on an aristocrat when the heart was still beating?
The Golden Crown
Leeuwenhoek's most critical secret creating Lenses
The ship shaker
The three culminating points in Ampère's life
The prayer of Ampere on his wife's death
Carl Linnaeus’s “Systema Naturae” was an eleven page work!
Husband would die if the marriage did not take place at a particular time!
Alan Turing was criminally prosecuted for homosexuality
It took them only an instant to cut off his head!
Alexander Graham Bell's mother and wife were deaf
Public dissection of the body of a notorious criminal
The preserved brain of the Prince of Mathematicians
Premature obituary and Nobel Prize
All telephones in United States stilled ringing for a silent minute.
The first long distance automobile trip in History
Archimedes repelled Roman attack with burning-glass!
Gauss's request to inscribe a heptadecagon on his tombstone
Alfred Nobel’s love letters
Archimedes and his mathematical instruments
Alhazen, the father of modern optics, feigned madness
Sequence of deaths in the life of Carl Friedrich Gauss
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