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STORIES FROM THE LIFE OF GREAT SCIENTISTS
Priestley Riots or Birmingham Riots
Hennig Brand’s experiments for the philosopher's stone with 5500 litres of Unine
Those who have been saved from Titanic disaster, have been saved through Mr. Marconi and his invention
Clara Immerwahr’s suicide protesting use of Poisonous gages in World War 1
The Archimedes Heat Ray
Charles Babbage’s steam powered Computers, weighing 13,600 kg
Carl Linnaeus, the second Adam: "God created, Linnaeus organized"
The first Asian and first non-White to get any Nobel Prize in Science
Obsessed with Anna Ivanova Popova, Dmitri Mendeleev threatened suicide if she refused
Blaise Pascal illness
Charles Darwin's illness
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
John Napier used his Black Rooster to find out the servants stealing from his home
The Archimedes Screw
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!"
Leeuwenhoek’s critical secret of creating of Lenses
World’s first successful human-to-human heart transplant - Christiaan Barnard
Charles Darwin’s advantages and disadvantages of Marriage
Fritz Haber’s chemical warfare with poisonous gases and suicide of his wife
The curious prediction of Bhaskarachārya about his daughter Lilavathi
Franck Report and dropping of atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Brown rice, beri-beri and formulation of Vitamines
Lavoisier’s respiration experiment in a guinea pig
Smallpox Vaccine from Cowpox blisters - Edward Jenner
The Claw of Archimedes
Christiaan Barnard - the superstar surgeon become the doctor of hearts (love)
The curious life of Blaise Pascal, like a religious fiction
Mini Stories of Great Lives
The preserved brain of the Prince of Mathematicians
A cyanide-laced apple Alan Turing left half-eaten
A plot to kill Einstein was fined a mere six dollars!
Vesalius wperformed an autopsy on an aristocrat when the heart was still beating?
Premature obituary and Nobel Prize
Alfred Nobel remained unmarried and had at least three loves
All telephones in United States stilled ringing for a silent minute.
The prayer of Ampere on his wife's death
C.V. Raman's confidence of winning the Nobel prize in 1930
Carl Linnaeus’s “Systema Naturae” was an eleven page work!
Albert Einstein’s creature who equal, as strong and independent
Archimedes's Last Problem
Carl Friedrich Gauss's father wanted him to become a Mason
Ampère’s father was executed as a victim of French revolution
People eating brown rice were less vulnerable to beri-beri
"Fire. God of Abraham,Isaac & Jacob, not of the philosophers and the scholars…"
Archimedes and his mathematical instruments
Pascal's last words being "May God never abandon me"
Sequence of deaths in the life of Carl Friedrich Gauss
Thermometer with 100 as the melting point of ice and 0 the boiling point of water
The Golden Crown
Carl Friedrich Gauss - a child prodigy
The three culminating points in Ampère's life
Andreas Vesalius's body was thrown to the animals!
Pascal wore stockings steeped in brandy to warm his feet
The statue of Lavoisier with another person's head
The ship shaker
Gauss's request to inscribe a heptadecagon on his tombstone
"To the widow of Lavoisier, who was falsely convicted"
Public dissection of the body of a notorious criminal
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