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STORIES FROM THE LIFE OF GREAT SCIENTISTS
World’s first successful human-to-human heart transplant - Christiaan Barnard
"Eureka!" "Eureka!" - "I have found it!"
Friedrich Gauss, as a child prodigy and his desire to inscribe a heptadecagon on the Tombstone
Charles Darwin's undiagnosed illness and relationship with his wife
John Napier used his Black Rooster to find out the servants stealing from his home
Obsessed with Anna Ivanova Popova, Dmitri Mendeleev threatened suicide if she refused
Claude Bernard’s Vivisection, suffering of Animals and a divorce!
The Archimedes Heat Ray
The curious life of Blaise Pascal, like a religious fiction
The first Asian and first non-White to get any Nobel Prize in Science
Christiaan Barnard - the superstar surgeon become the doctor of hearts (love)
The Archimedes Screw
Smallpox Vaccine from Cowpox blisters - Edward Jenner
Priestley Riots or Birmingham Riots
The Claw of Archimedes
Those who have been saved from Titanic disaster, have been saved through Mr. Marconi and his invention
Charles Darwin’s advantages and disadvantages of Marriage
Brown rice, beri-beri and formulation of Vitamines
Leeuwenhoek’s critical secret of creating of Lenses
Charles Darwin's illness
Lavoisier’s respiration experiment in a guinea pig
Charles Babbage’s steam powered Computers, weighing 13,600 kg
Blaise Pascal illness
Franck Report and dropping of atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki
The curious prediction of Bhaskarachārya about his daughter Lilavathi
Carl Linnaeus, the second Adam: "God created, Linnaeus organized"
Fritz Haber’s chemical warfare with poisonous gases and suicide of his wife
Hennig Brand’s experiments for the philosopher's stone with 5500 litres of Unine
Clara Immerwahr’s suicide protesting use of Poisonous gages in World War 1
Galileo’s controversy with Church - Pope’s regret for how the Galileo affair was handled
Mini Stories of Great Lives
Pascal wore stockings steeped in brandy to warm his feet
The ship shaker
The first long distance automobile trip in History
Ampère’s father was executed as a victim of French revolution
Alexander Fleming revolutionized all medicine in a day
A plot to kill Einstein was fined a mere six dollars!
C.V. Raman's confidence of winning the Nobel prize in 1930
Archimedes's Last Problem
Carl Friedrich Gauss - a child prodigy
The statue of Lavoisier with another person's head
Wife is dying - "Tell her to wait a moment till I'm done."
Alexander Graham Bell's mother and wife were deaf
The merchant of death is dead
Archimedes and his mathematical instruments
The Golden Crown
The Republic needs neither scientists nor chemists
All telephones in United States stilled ringing for a silent minute.
The three culminating points in Ampère's life
Alfred Nobel’s love letters
The preserved brain of the Prince of Mathematicians
"Fire. God of Abraham,Isaac & Jacob, not of the philosophers and the scholars…"
Andreas Vesalius's body was thrown to the animals!
Thermometer with 100 as the melting point of ice and 0 the boiling point of water
It took them only an instant to cut off his head!
"To the widow of Lavoisier, who was falsely convicted"
Pascal's last words being "May God never abandon me"
Public dissection of the body of a notorious criminal
Vesalius wperformed an autopsy on an aristocrat when the heart was still beating?
Alan Turing was criminally prosecuted for homosexuality
The prayer of Ampere on his wife's death
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