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STORIES FROM THE LIFE OF GREAT SCIENTISTS
Brown rice, beri-beri and formulation of Vitamines
The curious prediction of Bhaskarachārya about his daughter Lilavathi
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
Claude Bernard’s Vivisection, suffering of Animals and a divorce!
"Eureka!" "Eureka!" - "I have found it!"
Charles Darwin’s advantages and disadvantages of Marriage
The curious life of Blaise Pascal, like a religious fiction
Charles Darwin's illness
The Archimedes Screw
Smallpox Vaccine from Cowpox blisters - Edward Jenner
John Napier used his Black Rooster to find out the servants stealing from his home
Carl Linnaeus, the second Adam: "God created, Linnaeus organized"
Blaise Pascal illness
Leeuwenhoek’s critical secret of creating of Lenses
Lavoisier’s respiration experiment in a guinea pig
Clara Immerwahr’s suicide protesting use of Poisonous gages in World War 1
The first Asian and first non-White to get any Nobel Prize in Science
The Archimedes Heat Ray
Charles Darwin's undiagnosed illness and relationship with his wife
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
World’s first successful human-to-human heart transplant - Christiaan Barnard
Franck Report and dropping of atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Priestley Riots or Birmingham Riots
Christiaan Barnard - the superstar surgeon become the doctor of hearts (love)
The Claw of Archimedes
Friedrich Gauss, as a child prodigy and his desire to inscribe a heptadecagon on the Tombstone
Hennig Brand’s experiments for the philosopher's stone with 5500 litres of Unine
Fritz Haber’s chemical warfare with poisonous gases and suicide of his wife
Mini Stories of Great Lives
Pascal's last words being "May God never abandon me"
Sequence of deaths in the life of Carl Friedrich Gauss
The first long distance automobile trip in History
A plot to kill Einstein was fined a mere six dollars!
Premature obituary and Nobel Prize
Wife is dying - "Tell her to wait a moment till I'm done."
Carl Linnaeus’s “Systema Naturae” was an eleven page work!
All telephones in United States stilled ringing for a silent minute.
The prayer of Ampere on his wife's death
The merchant of death is dead
Leeuwenhoek's most critical secret creating Lenses
Husband would die if the marriage did not take place at a particular time!
Carl Friedrich Gauss's father wanted him to become a Mason
Vesalius wperformed an autopsy on an aristocrat when the heart was still beating?
Gauss's request to inscribe a heptadecagon on his tombstone
Archimedes's Last Problem
Thermometer with 100 as the melting point of ice and 0 the boiling point of water
People eating brown rice were less vulnerable to beri-beri
Alexander Graham Bell's mother and wife were deaf
Carl Linnaeus thought of himself as a second Adam
The Golden Crown
Alhazen, the father of modern optics, feigned madness
The ship shaker
Sickness is the natural state of Christians
Alfred Nobel’s love letters
C.V. Raman's confidence of winning the Nobel prize in 1930
A test of the Archimedes heat ray
Andreas Vesalius's body was thrown to the animals!
The Republic needs neither scientists nor chemists
"Fire. God of Abraham,Isaac & Jacob, not of the philosophers and the scholars…"
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