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STORIES FROM THE LIFE OF GREAT SCIENTISTS
John Napier used his Black Rooster to find out the servants stealing from his home
The Archimedes Heat Ray
Charles Darwin's undiagnosed illness and relationship with his wife
Lavoisier’s respiration experiment in a guinea pig
Brown rice, beri-beri and formulation of Vitamines
Galileo’s controversy with Church - Pope’s regret for how the Galileo affair was handled
The Archimedes Screw
Hennig Brand’s experiments for the philosopher's stone with 5500 litres of Unine
Christiaan Barnard - the superstar surgeon become the doctor of hearts (love)
The curious life of Blaise Pascal, like a religious fiction
"Eureka!" "Eureka!" - "I have found it!"
Clara Immerwahr’s suicide protesting use of Poisonous gages in World War 1
Fritz Haber’s chemical warfare with poisonous gases and suicide of his wife
Blaise Pascal illness
Leeuwenhoek’s critical secret of creating of Lenses
Charles Darwin’s advantages and disadvantages of Marriage
The first Asian and first non-White to get any Nobel Prize in Science
Charles Darwin's illness
The Claw of Archimedes
Charles Babbage’s steam powered Computers, weighing 13,600 kg
Priestley Riots or Birmingham Riots
Friedrich Gauss, as a child prodigy and his desire to inscribe a heptadecagon on the Tombstone
Carl Linnaeus, the second Adam: "God created, Linnaeus organized"
World’s first successful human-to-human heart transplant - Christiaan Barnard
Obsessed with Anna Ivanova Popova, Dmitri Mendeleev threatened suicide if she refused
Smallpox Vaccine from Cowpox blisters - Edward Jenner
Claude Bernard’s Vivisection, suffering of Animals and a divorce!
The curious prediction of Bhaskarachārya about his daughter Lilavathi
Franck Report and dropping of atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Those who have been saved from Titanic disaster, have been saved through Mr. Marconi and his invention
Mini Stories of Great Lives
Albert Einstein’s creature who equal, as strong and independent
All telephones in United States stilled ringing for a silent minute.
The Republic needs neither scientists nor chemists
Alan Turing was criminally prosecuted for homosexuality
The three culminating points in Ampère's life
The first long distance automobile trip in History
Leeuwenhoek's most critical secret creating Lenses
Alfred Nobel’s love letters
Carl Linnaeus’s “Systema Naturae” was an eleven page work!
The ship shaker
Gauss's request to inscribe a heptadecagon on his tombstone
The merchant of death is dead
Alexander Graham Bell's mother and wife were deaf
Carl Linnaeus thought of himself as a second Adam
Sickness is the natural state of Christians
People eating brown rice were less vulnerable to beri-beri
The prayer of Ampere on his wife's death
"Fire. God of Abraham,Isaac & Jacob, not of the philosophers and the scholars…"
Andreas Vesalius's body was thrown to the animals!
Ampère’s father was executed as a victim of French revolution
Alexander Fleming revolutionized all medicine in a day
Vesalius wperformed an autopsy on an aristocrat when the heart was still beating?
"To the widow of Lavoisier, who was falsely convicted"
Pascal's last words being "May God never abandon me"
Pascal wore stockings steeped in brandy to warm his feet
Thermometer with 100 as the melting point of ice and 0 the boiling point of water
Premature obituary and Nobel Prize
A test of the Archimedes heat ray
C.V. Raman's confidence of winning the Nobel prize in 1930
Husband would die if the marriage did not take place at a particular time!
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