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STORIES FROM THE LIFE OF GREAT SCIENTISTS
Claude Bernard’s Vivisection, suffering of Animals and a divorce!
The Archimedes Screw
The first Asian and first non-White to get any Nobel Prize in Science
Hennig Brand’s experiments for the philosopher's stone with 5500 litres of Unine
Smallpox Vaccine from Cowpox blisters - Edward Jenner
Leeuwenhoek’s critical secret of creating of Lenses
Those who have been saved from Titanic disaster, have been saved through Mr. Marconi and his invention
Obsessed with Anna Ivanova Popova, Dmitri Mendeleev threatened suicide if she refused
The curious prediction of Bhaskarachārya about his daughter Lilavathi
Carl Linnaeus, the second Adam: "God created, Linnaeus organized"
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
Blaise Pascal illness
World’s first successful human-to-human heart transplant - Christiaan Barnard
The curious life of Blaise Pascal, like a religious fiction
Charles Darwin's illness
Charles Darwin's undiagnosed illness and relationship with his wife
Christiaan Barnard - the superstar surgeon become the doctor of hearts (love)
"Eureka!" "Eureka!" - "I have found it!"
Charles Babbage’s steam powered Computers, weighing 13,600 kg
The Claw of Archimedes
Lavoisier’s respiration experiment in a guinea pig
Friedrich Gauss, as a child prodigy and his desire to inscribe a heptadecagon on the Tombstone
Fritz Haber’s chemical warfare with poisonous gases and suicide of his wife
The Archimedes Heat Ray
Franck Report and dropping of atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Brown rice, beri-beri and formulation of Vitamines
John Napier used his Black Rooster to find out the servants stealing from his home
Clara Immerwahr’s suicide protesting use of Poisonous gages in World War 1
Mini Stories of Great Lives
"To the widow of Lavoisier, who was falsely convicted"
Vesalius wperformed an autopsy on an aristocrat when the heart was still beating?
Albert Einstein’s creature who equal, as strong and independent
The statue of Lavoisier with another person's head
Ampère’s father was executed as a victim of French revolution
Leeuwenhoek's most critical secret creating Lenses
Sequence of deaths in the life of Carl Friedrich Gauss
Public dissection of the body of a notorious criminal
Wife is dying - "Tell her to wait a moment till I'm done."
Carl Linnaeus thought of himself as a second Adam
It took them only an instant to cut off his head!
The Golden Crown
Andreas Vesalius's body was thrown to the animals!
All telephones in United States stilled ringing for a silent minute.
A test of the Archimedes heat ray
Alfred Nobel’s love letters
Archimedes's Last Problem
Pascal's last words being "May God never abandon me"
A plot to kill Einstein was fined a mere six dollars!
The Republic needs neither scientists nor chemists
Carl Friedrich Gauss's father wanted him to become a Mason
Pascal wore stockings steeped in brandy to warm his feet
Archimedes and his mathematical instruments
The merchant of death is dead
Alhazen, the father of modern optics, feigned madness
Husband would die if the marriage did not take place at a particular time!
The ship shaker
Alexander Graham Bell's mother and wife were deaf
Premature obituary and Nobel Prize
Alfred Nobel remained unmarried and had at least three loves
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