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STORIES FROM THE LIFE OF GREAT SCIENTISTS
Clara Immerwahr’s suicide protesting use of Poisonous gages in World War 1
World’s first successful human-to-human heart transplant - Christiaan Barnard
Christiaan Barnard - the superstar surgeon become the doctor of hearts (love)
The Claw of Archimedes
Charles Darwin's illness
Leeuwenhoek’s critical secret of creating of Lenses
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
Charles Darwin’s advantages and disadvantages of Marriage
Brown rice, beri-beri and formulation of Vitamines
Franck Report and dropping of atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Fritz Haber’s chemical warfare with poisonous gases and suicide of his wife
Charles Babbage’s steam powered Computers, weighing 13,600 kg
Carl Linnaeus, the second Adam: "God created, Linnaeus organized"
The Archimedes Heat Ray
Lavoisier’s respiration experiment in a guinea pig
The curious prediction of Bhaskarachārya about his daughter Lilavathi
Charles Darwin's undiagnosed illness and relationship with his wife
Hennig Brand’s experiments for the philosopher's stone with 5500 litres of Unine
Smallpox Vaccine from Cowpox blisters - Edward Jenner
The Archimedes Screw
Galileo’s controversy with Church - Pope’s regret for how the Galileo affair was handled
Priestley Riots or Birmingham Riots
Those who have been saved from Titanic disaster, have been saved through Mr. Marconi and his invention
Blaise Pascal illness
"Eureka!" "Eureka!" - "I have found it!"
The curious life of Blaise Pascal, like a religious fiction
John Napier used his Black Rooster to find out the servants stealing from his home
Claude Bernard’s Vivisection, suffering of Animals and a divorce!
Friedrich Gauss, as a child prodigy and his desire to inscribe a heptadecagon on the Tombstone
Mini Stories of Great Lives
Sequence of deaths in the life of Carl Friedrich Gauss
Wife is dying - "Tell her to wait a moment till I'm done."
Carl Friedrich Gauss's father wanted him to become a Mason
The ship shaker
Pascal wore stockings steeped in brandy to warm his feet
"To the widow of Lavoisier, who was falsely convicted"
Public dissection of the body of a notorious criminal
The Golden Crown
The preserved brain of the Prince of Mathematicians
The statue of Lavoisier with another person's head
Husband would die if the marriage did not take place at a particular time!
Archimedes repelled Roman attack with burning-glass!
Gauss's request to inscribe a heptadecagon on his tombstone
The three culminating points in Ampère's life
Albert Einstein’s creature who equal, as strong and independent
Vesalius wperformed an autopsy on an aristocrat when the heart was still beating?
Carl Linnaeus thought of himself as a second Adam
A plot to kill Einstein was fined a mere six dollars!
Sickness is the natural state of Christians
People eating brown rice were less vulnerable to beri-beri
Pascal's last words being "May God never abandon me"
A test of the Archimedes heat ray
It took them only an instant to cut off his head!
All telephones in United States stilled ringing for a silent minute.
The prayer of Ampere on his wife's death
Alhazen, the father of modern optics, feigned madness
The Republic needs neither scientists nor chemists
Alfred Nobel’s love letters
Archimedes and his mathematical instruments
"Fire. God of Abraham,Isaac & Jacob, not of the philosophers and the scholars…"
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