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STORIES FROM THE LIFE OF GREAT SCIENTISTS
Charles Babbage’s steam powered Computers, weighing 13,600 kg
Charles Darwin’s advantages and disadvantages of Marriage
Brown rice, beri-beri and formulation of Vitamines
Blaise Pascal illness
Galileo’s controversy with Church - Pope’s regret for how the Galileo affair was handled
The curious life of Blaise Pascal, like a religious fiction
Franck Report and dropping of atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Clara Immerwahr’s suicide protesting use of Poisonous gages in World War 1
Lavoisier’s respiration experiment in a guinea pig
The curious prediction of Bhaskarachārya about his daughter Lilavathi
The Claw of Archimedes
World’s first successful human-to-human heart transplant - Christiaan Barnard
"Eureka!" "Eureka!" - "I have found it!"
Those who have been saved from Titanic disaster, have been saved through Mr. Marconi and his invention
Charles Darwin's illness
Charles Darwin's undiagnosed illness and relationship with his wife
Fritz Haber’s chemical warfare with poisonous gases and suicide of his wife
Carl Linnaeus, the second Adam: "God created, Linnaeus organized"
Obsessed with Anna Ivanova Popova, Dmitri Mendeleev threatened suicide if she refused
Priestley Riots or Birmingham Riots
Smallpox Vaccine from Cowpox blisters - Edward Jenner
Leeuwenhoek’s critical secret of creating of Lenses
Friedrich Gauss, as a child prodigy and his desire to inscribe a heptadecagon on the Tombstone
Hennig Brand’s experiments for the philosopher's stone with 5500 litres of Unine
The Archimedes Screw
Claude Bernard’s Vivisection, suffering of Animals and a divorce!
The first Asian and first non-White to get any Nobel Prize in Science
John Napier used his Black Rooster to find out the servants stealing from his home
Christiaan Barnard - the superstar surgeon become the doctor of hearts (love)
The Archimedes Heat Ray
Mini Stories of Great Lives
Albert Einstein’s creature who equal, as strong and independent
Alfred Nobel’s love letters
Sickness is the natural state of Christians
Alhazen, the father of modern optics, feigned madness
Archimedes repelled Roman attack with burning-glass!
Husband would die if the marriage did not take place at a particular time!
Thermometer with 100 as the melting point of ice and 0 the boiling point of water
Pascal's last words being "May God never abandon me"
The statue of Lavoisier with another person's head
The three culminating points in Ampère's life
Wife is dying - "Tell her to wait a moment till I'm done."
The merchant of death is dead
Andreas Vesalius's body was thrown to the animals!
Alexander Fleming revolutionized all medicine in a day
Carl Linnaeus thought of himself as a second Adam
Pascal wore stockings steeped in brandy to warm his feet
The prayer of Ampere on his wife's death
Carl Linnaeus’s “Systema Naturae” was an eleven page work!
Archimedes and his mathematical instruments
Carl Friedrich Gauss - a child prodigy
Ampère’s father was executed as a victim of French revolution
The Golden Crown
C.V. Raman's confidence of winning the Nobel prize in 1930
Sequence of deaths in the life of Carl Friedrich Gauss
All telephones in United States stilled ringing for a silent minute.
Alan Turing was criminally prosecuted for homosexuality
Archimedes's Last Problem
A plot to kill Einstein was fined a mere six dollars!
The preserved brain of the Prince of Mathematicians
Gauss's request to inscribe a heptadecagon on his tombstone
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