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