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STORIES FROM THE LIFE OF GREAT SCIENTISTS
World’s first successful human-to-human heart transplant - Christiaan Barnard
John Napier used his Black Rooster to find out the servants stealing from his home
Leeuwenhoek’s critical secret of creating of Lenses
Carl Linnaeus, the second Adam: "God created, Linnaeus organized"
The Claw of Archimedes
Charles Babbage’s steam powered Computers, weighing 13,600 kg
Smallpox Vaccine from Cowpox blisters - Edward Jenner
The Archimedes Screw
Friedrich Gauss, as a child prodigy and his desire to inscribe a heptadecagon on the Tombstone
Lavoisier’s respiration experiment in a guinea pig
Claude Bernard’s Vivisection, suffering of Animals and a divorce!
Those who have been saved from Titanic disaster, have been saved through Mr. Marconi and his invention
The first Asian and first non-White to get any Nobel Prize in Science
Fritz Haber’s chemical warfare with poisonous gases and suicide of his wife
The Archimedes Heat Ray
Brown rice, beri-beri and formulation of Vitamines
Clara Immerwahr’s suicide protesting use of Poisonous gages in World War 1
Blaise Pascal illness
Christiaan Barnard - the superstar surgeon become the doctor of hearts (love)
The curious prediction of Bhaskarachārya about his daughter Lilavathi
"Eureka!" "Eureka!" - "I have found it!"
Priestley Riots or Birmingham Riots
Galileo’s controversy with Church - Pope’s regret for how the Galileo affair was handled
Charles Darwin’s advantages and disadvantages of Marriage
The curious life of Blaise Pascal, like a religious fiction
Charles Darwin's undiagnosed illness and relationship with his wife
Obsessed with Anna Ivanova Popova, Dmitri Mendeleev threatened suicide if she refused
Charles Darwin's illness
Franck Report and dropping of atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Hennig Brand’s experiments for the philosopher's stone with 5500 litres of Unine
Mini Stories of Great Lives
Pascal wore stockings steeped in brandy to warm his feet
Alexander Graham Bell's mother and wife were deaf
Ampère’s father was executed as a victim of French revolution
The preserved brain of the Prince of Mathematicians
The ship shaker
Gauss's request to inscribe a heptadecagon on his tombstone
"Fire. God of Abraham,Isaac & Jacob, not of the philosophers and the scholars…"
The merchant of death is dead
The Republic needs neither scientists nor chemists
Vesalius wperformed an autopsy on an aristocrat when the heart was still beating?
"To the widow of Lavoisier, who was falsely convicted"
Alfred Nobel remained unmarried and had at least three loves
The first long distance automobile trip in History
Carl Linnaeus thought of himself as a second Adam
The statue of Lavoisier with another person's head
The Golden Crown
The prayer of Ampere on his wife's death
Sequence of deaths in the life of Carl Friedrich Gauss
A cyanide-laced apple Alan Turing left half-eaten
Archimedes's Last Problem
Alhazen, the father of modern optics, feigned madness
People eating brown rice were less vulnerable to beri-beri
Carl Friedrich Gauss - a child prodigy
Premature obituary and Nobel Prize
Albert Einstein’s creature who equal, as strong and independent
Husband would die if the marriage did not take place at a particular time!
Alexander Fleming revolutionized all medicine in a day
Wife is dying - "Tell her to wait a moment till I'm done."
Pascal's last words being "May God never abandon me"
Archimedes and his mathematical instruments
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