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STORIES FROM THE LIFE OF GREAT SCIENTISTS
World’s first successful human-to-human heart transplant - Christiaan Barnard
Fritz Haber’s chemical warfare with poisonous gases and suicide of his wife
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!
Lavoisier’s respiration experiment in a guinea pig
The curious prediction of Bhaskarachārya about his daughter Lilavathi
The first Asian and first non-White to get any Nobel Prize in Science
"Eureka!" "Eureka!" - "I have found it!"
Brown rice, beri-beri and formulation of Vitamines
Priestley Riots or Birmingham Riots
Galileo’s controversy with Church - Pope’s regret for how the Galileo affair was handled
Charles Darwin's illness
The Claw of Archimedes
Christiaan Barnard - the superstar surgeon become the doctor of hearts (love)
Friedrich Gauss, as a child prodigy and his desire to inscribe a heptadecagon on the Tombstone
Charles Darwin’s advantages and disadvantages of Marriage
Obsessed with Anna Ivanova Popova, Dmitri Mendeleev threatened suicide if she refused
The Archimedes Heat Ray
Blaise Pascal illness
Clara Immerwahr’s suicide protesting use of Poisonous gages in World War 1
Franck Report and dropping of atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Charles Darwin's undiagnosed illness and relationship with his wife
Leeuwenhoek’s critical secret of creating of Lenses
The Archimedes Screw
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
Hennig Brand’s experiments for the philosopher's stone with 5500 litres of Unine
Carl Linnaeus, the second Adam: "God created, Linnaeus organized"
Smallpox Vaccine from Cowpox blisters - Edward Jenner
Mini Stories of Great Lives
It took them only an instant to cut off his head!
The Republic needs neither scientists nor chemists
Andreas Vesalius's body was thrown to the animals!
People eating brown rice were less vulnerable to beri-beri
The preserved brain of the Prince of Mathematicians
Alhazen, the father of modern optics, feigned madness
Archimedes and his mathematical instruments
The first long distance automobile trip in History
Leeuwenhoek's most critical secret creating Lenses
Gauss's request to inscribe a heptadecagon on his tombstone
Wife is dying - "Tell her to wait a moment till I'm done."
The merchant of death is dead
The three culminating points in Ampère's life
The prayer of Ampere on his wife's death
Carl Friedrich Gauss's father wanted him to become a Mason
Albert Einstein’s creature who equal, as strong and independent
Alfred Nobel’s love letters
A cyanide-laced apple Alan Turing left half-eaten
Carl Linnaeus thought of himself as a second Adam
Premature obituary and Nobel Prize
Carl Linnaeus’s “Systema Naturae” was an eleven page work!
A test of the Archimedes heat ray
Alexander Graham Bell's mother and wife were deaf
Sickness is the natural state of Christians
Alfred Nobel remained unmarried and had at least three loves
Alan Turing was criminally prosecuted for homosexuality
Sequence of deaths in the life of Carl Friedrich Gauss
Husband would die if the marriage did not take place at a particular time!
C.V. Raman's confidence of winning the Nobel prize in 1930
A plot to kill Einstein was fined a mere six dollars!
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