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STORIES FROM THE LIFE OF GREAT SCIENTISTS
Obsessed with Anna Ivanova Popova, Dmitri Mendeleev threatened suicide if she refused
Blaise Pascal illness
Christiaan Barnard - the superstar surgeon become the doctor of hearts (love)
World’s first successful human-to-human heart transplant - Christiaan Barnard
The first Asian and first non-White to get any Nobel Prize in Science
Carl Linnaeus, the second Adam: "God created, Linnaeus organized"
Clara Immerwahr’s suicide protesting use of Poisonous gages in World War 1
The Archimedes Heat Ray
Claude Bernard’s Vivisection, suffering of Animals and a divorce!
Charles Darwin's undiagnosed illness and relationship with his wife
"Eureka!" "Eureka!" - "I have found it!"
Franck Report and dropping of atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Fritz Haber’s chemical warfare with poisonous gases and suicide of his wife
Charles Darwin's illness
The Archimedes Screw
Charles Babbage’s steam powered Computers, weighing 13,600 kg
Brown rice, beri-beri and formulation of Vitamines
Galileo’s controversy with Church - Pope’s regret for how the Galileo affair was handled
Priestley Riots or Birmingham Riots
The curious life of Blaise Pascal, like a religious fiction
Those who have been saved from Titanic disaster, have been saved through Mr. Marconi and his invention
The curious prediction of Bhaskarachārya about his daughter Lilavathi
Smallpox Vaccine from Cowpox blisters - Edward Jenner
Charles Darwin’s advantages and disadvantages of Marriage
Friedrich Gauss, as a child prodigy and his desire to inscribe a heptadecagon on the Tombstone
Lavoisier’s respiration experiment in a guinea pig
Leeuwenhoek’s critical secret of creating of Lenses
Hennig Brand’s experiments for the philosopher's stone with 5500 litres of Unine
John Napier used his Black Rooster to find out the servants stealing from his home
The Claw of Archimedes
Mini Stories of Great Lives
Carl Linnaeus thought of himself as a second Adam
Alexander Fleming revolutionized all medicine in a day
Carl Friedrich Gauss's father wanted him to become a Mason
C.V. Raman's confidence of winning the Nobel prize in 1930
Archimedes repelled Roman attack with burning-glass!
It took them only an instant to cut off his head!
The three culminating points in Ampère's life
The first long distance automobile trip in History
Leeuwenhoek's most critical secret creating Lenses
Public dissection of the body of a notorious criminal
Sickness is the natural state of Christians
Carl Linnaeus’s “Systema Naturae” was an eleven page work!
The prayer of Ampere on his wife's death
All telephones in United States stilled ringing for a silent minute.
Gauss's request to inscribe a heptadecagon on his tombstone
"Fire. God of Abraham,Isaac & Jacob, not of the philosophers and the scholars…"
A plot to kill Einstein was fined a mere six dollars!
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
Alexander Graham Bell's mother and wife were deaf
Husband would die if the marriage did not take place at a particular time!
Wife is dying - "Tell her to wait a moment till I'm done."
Andreas Vesalius's body was thrown to the animals!
Albert Einstein’s creature who equal, as strong and independent
"To the widow of Lavoisier, who was falsely convicted"
Alfred Nobel’s love letters
Pascal wore stockings steeped in brandy to warm his feet
Pascal's last words being "May God never abandon me"
The ship shaker
Sequence of deaths in the life of Carl Friedrich Gauss
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