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STORIES FROM THE LIFE OF GREAT SCIENTISTS
Claude Bernard’s Vivisection, suffering of Animals and a divorce!
Lavoisier’s respiration experiment in a guinea pig
The Archimedes Heat Ray
World’s first successful human-to-human heart transplant - Christiaan Barnard
The Claw of Archimedes
Fritz Haber’s chemical warfare with poisonous gases and suicide of his wife
Clara Immerwahr’s suicide protesting use of Poisonous gages in World War 1
Hennig Brand’s experiments for the philosopher's stone with 5500 litres of Unine
John Napier used his Black Rooster to find out the servants stealing from his home
The Archimedes Screw
The first Asian and first non-White to get any Nobel Prize in Science
Charles Babbage’s steam powered Computers, weighing 13,600 kg
Charles Darwin's undiagnosed illness and relationship with his wife
Blaise Pascal illness
Galileo’s controversy with Church - Pope’s regret for how the Galileo affair was handled
"Eureka!" "Eureka!" - "I have found it!"
The curious prediction of Bhaskarachārya about his daughter Lilavathi
Smallpox Vaccine from Cowpox blisters - Edward Jenner
Brown rice, beri-beri and formulation of Vitamines
Obsessed with Anna Ivanova Popova, Dmitri Mendeleev threatened suicide if she refused
Charles Darwin’s advantages and disadvantages of Marriage
The curious life of Blaise Pascal, like a religious fiction
Franck Report and dropping of atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Charles Darwin's illness
Christiaan Barnard - the superstar surgeon become the doctor of hearts (love)
Leeuwenhoek’s critical secret of creating of Lenses
Priestley Riots or Birmingham Riots
Carl Linnaeus, the second Adam: "God created, Linnaeus organized"
Those who have been saved from Titanic disaster, have been saved through Mr. Marconi and his invention
Friedrich Gauss, as a child prodigy and his desire to inscribe a heptadecagon on the Tombstone
Mini Stories of Great Lives
Andreas Vesalius's body was thrown to the animals!
Alhazen, the father of modern optics, feigned madness
"Fire. God of Abraham,Isaac & Jacob, not of the philosophers and the scholars…"
The merchant of death is dead
It took them only an instant to cut off his head!
Sickness is the natural state of Christians
Pascal's last words being "May God never abandon me"
Thermometer with 100 as the melting point of ice and 0 the boiling point of water
Sequence of deaths in the life of Carl Friedrich Gauss
The prayer of Ampere on his wife's death
Leeuwenhoek's most critical secret creating Lenses
The preserved brain of the Prince of Mathematicians
Alfred Nobel’s love letters
Public dissection of the body of a notorious criminal
Carl Linnaeus thought of himself as a second Adam
A test of the Archimedes heat ray
Husband would die if the marriage did not take place at a particular time!
A cyanide-laced apple Alan Turing left half-eaten
The three culminating points in Ampère's life
A plot to kill Einstein was fined a mere six dollars!
The Republic needs neither scientists nor chemists
Ampère’s father was executed as a victim of French revolution
The statue of Lavoisier with another person's head
"To the widow of Lavoisier, who was falsely convicted"
Alan Turing was criminally prosecuted for homosexuality
Wife is dying - "Tell her to wait a moment till I'm done."
The ship shaker
Carl Friedrich Gauss - a child prodigy
Carl Friedrich Gauss's father wanted him to become a Mason
Premature obituary and Nobel Prize
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