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STORIES FROM THE LIFE OF GREAT SCIENTISTS
Carl Linnaeus, the second Adam: "God created, Linnaeus organized"
Friedrich Gauss, as a child prodigy and his desire to inscribe a heptadecagon on the Tombstone
The Claw of Archimedes
Lavoisier’s respiration experiment in a guinea pig
Those who have been saved from Titanic disaster, have been saved through Mr. Marconi and his invention
Blaise Pascal illness
Fritz Haber’s chemical warfare with poisonous gases and suicide of his wife
"Eureka!" "Eureka!" - "I have found it!"
Brown rice, beri-beri and formulation of Vitamines
Charles Darwin's undiagnosed illness and relationship with his wife
Galileo’s controversy with Church - Pope’s regret for how the Galileo affair was handled
Charles Darwin’s advantages and disadvantages of Marriage
Claude Bernard’s Vivisection, suffering of Animals and a divorce!
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)
Obsessed with Anna Ivanova Popova, Dmitri Mendeleev threatened suicide if she refused
Charles Darwin's illness
Priestley Riots or Birmingham Riots
The curious life of Blaise Pascal, like a religious fiction
Clara Immerwahr’s suicide protesting use of Poisonous gages in World War 1
The Archimedes Heat Ray
The curious prediction of Bhaskarachārya about his daughter Lilavathi
The first Asian and first non-White to get any Nobel Prize in Science
Franck Report and dropping of atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki
World’s first successful human-to-human heart transplant - Christiaan Barnard
Charles Babbage’s steam powered Computers, weighing 13,600 kg
John Napier used his Black Rooster to find out the servants stealing from his home
Smallpox Vaccine from Cowpox blisters - Edward Jenner
Leeuwenhoek’s critical secret of creating of Lenses
Mini Stories of Great Lives
Pascal's last words being "May God never abandon me"
Archimedes and his mathematical instruments
Alfred Nobel remained unmarried and had at least three loves
The merchant of death is dead
Alexander Graham Bell's mother and wife were deaf
The three culminating points in Ampère's life
All telephones in United States stilled ringing for a silent minute.
The ship shaker
People eating brown rice were less vulnerable to beri-beri
Husband would die if the marriage did not take place at a particular time!
Vesalius wperformed an autopsy on an aristocrat when the heart was still beating?
"To the widow of Lavoisier, who was falsely convicted"
Alexander Fleming revolutionized all medicine in a day
Sequence of deaths in the life of Carl Friedrich Gauss
The statue of Lavoisier with another person's head
Alhazen, the father of modern optics, feigned madness
The Golden Crown
Pascal wore stockings steeped in brandy to warm his feet
Alan Turing was criminally prosecuted for homosexuality
Sickness is the natural state of Christians
"Fire. God of Abraham,Isaac & Jacob, not of the philosophers and the scholars…"
The first long distance automobile trip in History
Gauss's request to inscribe a heptadecagon on his tombstone
Archimedes repelled Roman attack with burning-glass!
Alfred Nobel’s love letters
A plot to kill Einstein was fined a mere six dollars!
A cyanide-laced apple Alan Turing left half-eaten
Ampère’s father was executed as a victim of French revolution
Carl Linnaeus’s “Systema Naturae” was an eleven page work!
Premature obituary and Nobel Prize
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