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STORIES FROM THE LIFE OF GREAT SCIENTISTS
The curious life of Blaise Pascal, like a religious fiction
The Archimedes Heat Ray
Brown rice, beri-beri and formulation of Vitamines
World’s first successful human-to-human heart transplant - Christiaan Barnard
Charles Darwin's undiagnosed illness and relationship with his wife
Friedrich Gauss, as a child prodigy and his desire to inscribe a heptadecagon on the Tombstone
Smallpox Vaccine from Cowpox blisters - Edward Jenner
The Claw of Archimedes
"Eureka!" "Eureka!" - "I have found it!"
Fritz Haber’s chemical warfare with poisonous gases and suicide of his wife
Charles Babbage’s steam powered Computers, weighing 13,600 kg
Franck Report and dropping of atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki
The first Asian and first non-White to get any Nobel Prize in Science
Obsessed with Anna Ivanova Popova, Dmitri Mendeleev threatened suicide if she refused
Galileo’s controversy with Church - Pope’s regret for how the Galileo affair was handled
Charles Darwin’s advantages and disadvantages of Marriage
Carl Linnaeus, the second Adam: "God created, Linnaeus organized"
Lavoisier’s respiration experiment in a guinea pig
The curious prediction of Bhaskarachārya about his daughter Lilavathi
The Archimedes Screw
Those who have been saved from Titanic disaster, have been saved through Mr. Marconi and his invention
Charles Darwin's illness
Blaise Pascal illness
Priestley Riots or Birmingham Riots
Leeuwenhoek’s critical secret of creating of Lenses
Claude Bernard’s Vivisection, suffering of Animals and a divorce!
Clara Immerwahr’s suicide protesting use of Poisonous gages in World War 1
John Napier used his Black Rooster to find out the servants stealing from his home
Christiaan Barnard - the superstar surgeon become the doctor of hearts (love)
Hennig Brand’s experiments for the philosopher's stone with 5500 litres of Unine
Mini Stories of Great Lives
Pascal's last words being "May God never abandon me"
Alfred Nobel’s love letters
Carl Friedrich Gauss - a child prodigy
Archimedes and his mathematical instruments
Archimedes's Last Problem
A test of the Archimedes heat ray
Alfred Nobel remained unmarried and had at least three loves
People eating brown rice were less vulnerable to beri-beri
Alexander Graham Bell's mother and wife were deaf
C.V. Raman's confidence of winning the Nobel prize in 1930
A plot to kill Einstein was fined a mere six dollars!
The Golden Crown
All telephones in United States stilled ringing for a silent minute.
Sequence of deaths in the life of Carl Friedrich Gauss
The Republic needs neither scientists nor chemists
Carl Linnaeus’s “Systema Naturae” was an eleven page work!
Ampère’s father was executed as a victim of French revolution
Albert Einstein’s creature who equal, as strong and independent
"Fire. God of Abraham,Isaac & Jacob, not of the philosophers and the scholars…"
Andreas Vesalius's body was thrown to the animals!
Premature obituary and Nobel Prize
Gauss's request to inscribe a heptadecagon on his tombstone
Wife is dying - "Tell her to wait a moment till I'm done."
Carl Linnaeus thought of himself as a second Adam
Vesalius wperformed an autopsy on an aristocrat when the heart was still beating?
Pascal wore stockings steeped in brandy to warm his feet
Alan Turing was criminally prosecuted for homosexuality
It took them only an instant to cut off his head!
"To the widow of Lavoisier, who was falsely convicted"
Archimedes repelled Roman attack with burning-glass!
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