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STORIES FROM THE LIFE OF GREAT SCIENTISTS
John Napier used his Black Rooster to find out the servants stealing from his home
Charles Darwin's illness
Those who have been saved from Titanic disaster, have been saved through Mr. Marconi and his invention
Lavoisier’s respiration experiment in a guinea pig
Obsessed with Anna Ivanova Popova, Dmitri Mendeleev threatened suicide if she refused
Carl Linnaeus, the second Adam: "God created, Linnaeus organized"
Friedrich Gauss, as a child prodigy and his desire to inscribe a heptadecagon on the Tombstone
Brown rice, beri-beri and formulation of Vitamines
The first Asian and first non-White to get any Nobel Prize in Science
Franck Report and dropping of atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Charles Darwin’s advantages and disadvantages of Marriage
The Archimedes Heat Ray
"Eureka!" "Eureka!" - "I have found it!"
World’s first successful human-to-human heart transplant - Christiaan Barnard
Clara Immerwahr’s suicide protesting use of Poisonous gages in World War 1
Hennig Brand’s experiments for the philosopher's stone with 5500 litres of Unine
The curious prediction of Bhaskarachārya about his daughter Lilavathi
Leeuwenhoek’s critical secret of creating of Lenses
Fritz Haber’s chemical warfare with poisonous gases and suicide of his wife
Charles Darwin's undiagnosed illness and relationship with his wife
The Claw of Archimedes
The curious life of Blaise Pascal, like a religious fiction
Smallpox Vaccine from Cowpox blisters - Edward Jenner
Priestley Riots or Birmingham Riots
The Archimedes Screw
Galileo’s controversy with Church - Pope’s regret for how the Galileo affair was handled
Christiaan Barnard - the superstar surgeon become the doctor of hearts (love)
Blaise Pascal illness
Claude Bernard’s Vivisection, suffering of Animals and a divorce!
Charles Babbage’s steam powered Computers, weighing 13,600 kg
Mini Stories of Great Lives
The statue of Lavoisier with another person's head
The ship shaker
Alan Turing was criminally prosecuted for homosexuality
Carl Friedrich Gauss - a child prodigy
Archimedes repelled Roman attack with burning-glass!
A plot to kill Einstein was fined a mere six dollars!
The three culminating points in Ampère's life
The merchant of death is dead
The preserved brain of the Prince of Mathematicians
"To the widow of Lavoisier, who was falsely convicted"
It took them only an instant to cut off his head!
Carl Friedrich Gauss's father wanted him to become a Mason
Gauss's request to inscribe a heptadecagon on his tombstone
Alexander Graham Bell's mother and wife were deaf
Wife is dying - "Tell her to wait a moment till I'm done."
The first long distance automobile trip in History
The prayer of Ampere on his wife's death
Alhazen, the father of modern optics, feigned madness
Sequence of deaths in the life of Carl Friedrich Gauss
Pascal wore stockings steeped in brandy to warm his feet
The Republic needs neither scientists nor chemists
A test of the Archimedes heat ray
Public dissection of the body of a notorious criminal
Vesalius wperformed an autopsy on an aristocrat when the heart was still beating?
The Golden Crown
Sickness is the natural state of Christians
A cyanide-laced apple Alan Turing left half-eaten
Carl Linnaeus’s “Systema Naturae” was an eleven page work!
People eating brown rice were less vulnerable to beri-beri
Husband would die if the marriage did not take place at a particular time!
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