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STORIES FROM THE LIFE OF GREAT SCIENTISTS
Charles Babbage’s steam powered Computers, weighing 13,600 kg
Charles Darwin's undiagnosed illness and relationship with his wife
Carl Linnaeus, the second Adam: "God created, Linnaeus organized"
Smallpox Vaccine from Cowpox blisters - Edward Jenner
Clara Immerwahr’s suicide protesting use of Poisonous gages in World War 1
The Claw of Archimedes
Fritz Haber’s chemical warfare with poisonous gases and suicide of his wife
Charles Darwin's illness
Claude Bernard’s Vivisection, suffering of Animals and a divorce!
World’s first successful human-to-human heart transplant - Christiaan Barnard
Franck Report and dropping of atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Charles Darwin’s advantages and disadvantages of Marriage
Those who have been saved from Titanic disaster, have been saved through Mr. Marconi and his invention
The curious life of Blaise Pascal, like a religious fiction
Galileo’s controversy with Church - Pope’s regret for how the Galileo affair was handled
"Eureka!" "Eureka!" - "I have found it!"
Obsessed with Anna Ivanova Popova, Dmitri Mendeleev threatened suicide if she refused
Christiaan Barnard - the superstar surgeon become the doctor of hearts (love)
The Archimedes Heat Ray
John Napier used his Black Rooster to find out the servants stealing from his home
The curious prediction of Bhaskarachārya about his daughter Lilavathi
The first Asian and first non-White to get any Nobel Prize in Science
Blaise Pascal illness
The Archimedes Screw
Lavoisier’s respiration experiment in a guinea pig
Priestley Riots or Birmingham Riots
Leeuwenhoek’s critical secret of creating of Lenses
Hennig Brand’s experiments for the philosopher's stone with 5500 litres of Unine
Brown rice, beri-beri and formulation of Vitamines
Friedrich Gauss, as a child prodigy and his desire to inscribe a heptadecagon on the Tombstone
Mini Stories of Great Lives
"To the widow of Lavoisier, who was falsely convicted"
Carl Linnaeus’s “Systema Naturae” was an eleven page work!
Husband would die if the marriage did not take place at a particular time!
The Republic needs neither scientists nor chemists
Archimedes repelled Roman attack with burning-glass!
Alan Turing was criminally prosecuted for homosexuality
Sickness is the natural state of Christians
Carl Friedrich Gauss - a child prodigy
Alexander Fleming revolutionized all medicine in a day
Archimedes and his mathematical instruments
Ampère’s father was executed as a victim of French revolution
A test of the Archimedes heat ray
Pascal wore stockings steeped in brandy to warm his feet
Andreas Vesalius's body was thrown to the animals!
A cyanide-laced apple Alan Turing left half-eaten
Archimedes's Last Problem
The three culminating points in Ampère's life
The merchant of death is dead
Pascal's last words being "May God never abandon me"
Sequence of deaths in the life of Carl Friedrich Gauss
The ship shaker
The first long distance automobile trip in History
Albert Einstein’s creature who equal, as strong and independent
Thermometer with 100 as the melting point of ice and 0 the boiling point of water
Alhazen, the father of modern optics, feigned madness
People eating brown rice were less vulnerable to beri-beri
Alfred Nobel remained unmarried and had at least three loves
"Fire. God of Abraham,Isaac & Jacob, not of the philosophers and the scholars…"
C.V. Raman's confidence of winning the Nobel prize in 1930
Gauss's request to inscribe a heptadecagon on his tombstone
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