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STORIES FROM THE LIFE OF GREAT SCIENTISTS
The Archimedes Screw
Priestley Riots or Birmingham Riots
World’s first successful human-to-human heart transplant - Christiaan Barnard
Hennig Brand’s experiments for the philosopher's stone with 5500 litres of Unine
The Claw of Archimedes
Claude Bernard’s Vivisection, suffering of Animals and a divorce!
Charles Darwin’s advantages and disadvantages of Marriage
Smallpox Vaccine from Cowpox blisters - Edward Jenner
Brown rice, beri-beri and formulation of Vitamines
The curious life of Blaise Pascal, like a religious fiction
Galileo’s controversy with Church - Pope’s regret for how the Galileo affair was handled
Obsessed with Anna Ivanova Popova, Dmitri Mendeleev threatened suicide if she refused
Leeuwenhoek’s critical secret of creating of Lenses
The curious prediction of Bhaskarachārya about his daughter Lilavathi
Lavoisier’s respiration experiment in a guinea pig
Charles Babbage’s steam powered Computers, weighing 13,600 kg
Clara Immerwahr’s suicide protesting use of Poisonous gages in World War 1
Carl Linnaeus, the second Adam: "God created, Linnaeus organized"
Franck Report and dropping of atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Fritz Haber’s chemical warfare with poisonous gases and suicide of his wife
Christiaan Barnard - the superstar surgeon become the doctor of hearts (love)
Blaise Pascal illness
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
The Archimedes Heat Ray
John Napier used his Black Rooster to find out the servants stealing from his home
Friedrich Gauss, as a child prodigy and his desire to inscribe a heptadecagon on the Tombstone
Charles Darwin's illness
"Eureka!" "Eureka!" - "I have found it!"
The first Asian and first non-White to get any Nobel Prize in Science
Mini Stories of Great Lives
It took them only an instant to cut off his head!
The three culminating points in Ampère's life
Alhazen, the father of modern optics, feigned madness
Alexander Fleming revolutionized all medicine in a day
Thermometer with 100 as the melting point of ice and 0 the boiling point of water
Alfred Nobel remained unmarried and had at least three loves
The Golden Crown
Carl Friedrich Gauss - a child prodigy
Gauss's request to inscribe a heptadecagon on his tombstone
The merchant of death is dead
Carl Friedrich Gauss's father wanted him to become a Mason
Alexander Graham Bell's mother and wife were deaf
Public dissection of the body of a notorious criminal
C.V. Raman's confidence of winning the Nobel prize in 1930
Ampère’s father was executed as a victim of French revolution
Vesalius wperformed an autopsy on an aristocrat when the heart was still beating?
Husband would die if the marriage did not take place at a particular time!
Archimedes repelled Roman attack with burning-glass!
"To the widow of Lavoisier, who was falsely convicted"
Leeuwenhoek's most critical secret creating Lenses
The statue of Lavoisier with another person's head
The prayer of Ampere on his wife's death
Sickness is the natural state of Christians
Archimedes and his mathematical instruments
Wife is dying - "Tell her to wait a moment till I'm done."
"Fire. God of Abraham,Isaac & Jacob, not of the philosophers and the scholars…"
Pascal wore stockings steeped in brandy to warm his feet
Alan Turing was criminally prosecuted for homosexuality
A plot to kill Einstein was fined a mere six dollars!
The preserved brain of the Prince of Mathematicians
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