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STORIES FROM THE LIFE OF GREAT SCIENTISTS
Lavoisier’s respiration experiment in a guinea pig
Clara Immerwahr’s suicide protesting use of Poisonous gages in World War 1
Charles Darwin's illness
Leeuwenhoek’s critical secret of creating of Lenses
The Archimedes Screw
Charles Darwin’s advantages and disadvantages of Marriage
Fritz Haber’s chemical warfare with poisonous gases and suicide of his wife
The Archimedes Heat Ray
Christiaan Barnard - the superstar surgeon become the doctor of hearts (love)
The curious prediction of Bhaskarachārya about his daughter Lilavathi
Obsessed with Anna Ivanova Popova, Dmitri Mendeleev threatened suicide if she refused
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!
Charles Darwin's undiagnosed illness and relationship with his wife
Those who have been saved from Titanic disaster, have been saved through Mr. Marconi and his invention
"Eureka!" "Eureka!" - "I have found it!"
The Claw of Archimedes
Galileo’s controversy with Church - Pope’s regret for how the Galileo affair was handled
Smallpox Vaccine from Cowpox blisters - Edward Jenner
Blaise Pascal illness
World’s first successful human-to-human heart transplant - Christiaan Barnard
Charles Babbage’s steam powered Computers, weighing 13,600 kg
Friedrich Gauss, as a child prodigy and his desire to inscribe a heptadecagon on the Tombstone
Brown rice, beri-beri and formulation of Vitamines
Hennig Brand’s experiments for the philosopher's stone with 5500 litres of Unine
Carl Linnaeus, the second Adam: "God created, Linnaeus organized"
The curious life of Blaise Pascal, like a religious fiction
The first Asian and first non-White to get any Nobel Prize in Science
Priestley Riots or Birmingham Riots
Franck Report and dropping of atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Mini Stories of Great Lives
A plot to kill Einstein was fined a mere six dollars!
Vesalius wperformed an autopsy on an aristocrat when the heart was still beating?
Archimedes's Last Problem
It took them only an instant to cut off his head!
Archimedes and his mathematical instruments
People eating brown rice were less vulnerable to beri-beri
Public dissection of the body of a notorious criminal
Alan Turing was criminally prosecuted for homosexuality
Alexander Fleming revolutionized all medicine in a day
Alhazen, the father of modern optics, feigned madness
The preserved brain of the Prince of Mathematicians
Carl Friedrich Gauss - a child prodigy
Andreas Vesalius's body was thrown to the animals!
Sequence of deaths in the life of Carl Friedrich Gauss
Wife is dying - "Tell her to wait a moment till I'm done."
The statue of Lavoisier with another person's head
Alexander Graham Bell's mother and wife were deaf
All telephones in United States stilled ringing for a silent minute.
Alfred Nobel’s love letters
The Republic needs neither scientists nor chemists
The three culminating points in Ampère's life
Carl Linnaeus thought of himself as a second Adam
Gauss's request to inscribe a heptadecagon on his tombstone
The merchant of death is dead
Alfred Nobel remained unmarried and had at least three loves
Husband would die if the marriage did not take place at a particular time!
"Fire. God of Abraham,Isaac & Jacob, not of the philosophers and the scholars…"
A cyanide-laced apple Alan Turing left half-eaten
Carl Friedrich Gauss's father wanted him to become a Mason
C.V. Raman's confidence of winning the Nobel prize in 1930
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