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STORIES FROM THE LIFE OF GREAT SCIENTISTS
The Archimedes Screw
John Napier used his Black Rooster to find out the servants stealing from his home
Friedrich Gauss, as a child prodigy and his desire to inscribe a heptadecagon on the Tombstone
Charles Darwin's illness
World’s first successful human-to-human heart transplant - Christiaan Barnard
"Eureka!" "Eureka!" - "I have found it!"
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
The Claw of Archimedes
Lavoisier’s respiration experiment in a guinea pig
Charles Babbage’s steam powered Computers, weighing 13,600 kg
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
Claude Bernard’s Vivisection, suffering of Animals and a divorce!
The curious prediction of Bhaskarachārya about his daughter Lilavathi
Fritz Haber’s chemical warfare with poisonous gases and suicide of his wife
Blaise Pascal illness
The Archimedes Heat Ray
Charles Darwin's undiagnosed illness and relationship with his wife
Smallpox Vaccine from Cowpox blisters - Edward Jenner
Carl Linnaeus, the second Adam: "God created, Linnaeus organized"
Leeuwenhoek’s critical secret of creating of Lenses
The curious life of Blaise Pascal, like a religious fiction
Obsessed with Anna Ivanova Popova, Dmitri Mendeleev threatened suicide if she refused
Brown rice, beri-beri and formulation of Vitamines
Galileo’s controversy with Church - Pope’s regret for how the Galileo affair was handled
Franck Report and dropping of atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Charles Darwin’s advantages and disadvantages of Marriage
The first Asian and first non-White to get any Nobel Prize in Science
Priestley Riots or Birmingham Riots
Mini Stories of Great Lives
Premature obituary and Nobel Prize
Alfred Nobel remained unmarried and had at least three loves
A test of the Archimedes heat ray
Alexander Fleming revolutionized all medicine in a day
Alfred Nobel’s love letters
The ship shaker
Vesalius wperformed an autopsy on an aristocrat when the heart was still beating?
Thermometer with 100 as the melting point of ice and 0 the boiling point of water
Carl Linnaeus thought of himself as a second Adam
Alhazen, the father of modern optics, feigned madness
A plot to kill Einstein was fined a mere six dollars!
Archimedes and his mathematical instruments
Albert Einstein’s creature who equal, as strong and independent
Ampère’s father was executed as a victim of French revolution
C.V. Raman's confidence of winning the Nobel prize in 1930
Sequence of deaths in the life of Carl Friedrich Gauss
The Republic needs neither scientists nor chemists
Archimedes repelled Roman attack with burning-glass!
Gauss's request to inscribe a heptadecagon on his tombstone
Carl Friedrich Gauss - a child prodigy
"To the widow of Lavoisier, who was falsely convicted"
"Fire. God of Abraham,Isaac & Jacob, not of the philosophers and the scholars…"
A cyanide-laced apple Alan Turing left half-eaten
Husband would die if the marriage did not take place at a particular time!
Alexander Graham Bell's mother and wife were deaf
Wife is dying - "Tell her to wait a moment till I'm done."
The merchant of death is dead
The prayer of Ampere on his wife's death
The first long distance automobile trip in History
Andreas Vesalius's body was thrown to the animals!
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