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STORIES FROM THE LIFE OF GREAT SCIENTISTS
Obsessed with Anna Ivanova Popova, Dmitri Mendeleev threatened suicide if she refused
The Claw of Archimedes
The curious prediction of Bhaskarachārya about his daughter Lilavathi
Blaise Pascal illness
Smallpox Vaccine from Cowpox blisters - Edward Jenner
Franck Report and dropping of atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki
The Archimedes Screw
Charles Darwin’s advantages and disadvantages of Marriage
"Eureka!" "Eureka!" - "I have found it!"
Brown rice, beri-beri and formulation of Vitamines
The Archimedes Heat Ray
Fritz Haber’s chemical warfare with poisonous gases and suicide of his wife
Those who have been saved from Titanic disaster, have been saved through Mr. Marconi and his invention
Charles Babbage’s steam powered Computers, weighing 13,600 kg
Friedrich Gauss, as a child prodigy and his desire to inscribe a heptadecagon on the Tombstone
Lavoisier’s respiration experiment in a guinea pig
Christiaan Barnard - the superstar surgeon become the doctor of hearts (love)
Clara Immerwahr’s suicide protesting use of Poisonous gages in World War 1
World’s first successful human-to-human heart transplant - Christiaan Barnard
Claude Bernard’s Vivisection, suffering of Animals and a divorce!
Leeuwenhoek’s critical secret of creating of Lenses
Carl Linnaeus, the second Adam: "God created, Linnaeus organized"
John Napier used his Black Rooster to find out the servants stealing from his home
Charles Darwin's illness
Hennig Brand’s experiments for the philosopher's stone with 5500 litres of Unine
The first Asian and first non-White to get any Nobel Prize in Science
Priestley Riots or Birmingham Riots
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
Charles Darwin's undiagnosed illness and relationship with his wife
Mini Stories of Great Lives
Pascal wore stockings steeped in brandy to warm his feet
Vesalius wperformed an autopsy on an aristocrat when the heart was still beating?
Alhazen, the father of modern optics, feigned madness
It took them only an instant to cut off his head!
Alan Turing was criminally prosecuted for homosexuality
Alexander Fleming revolutionized all medicine in a day
The preserved brain of the Prince of Mathematicians
Carl Linnaeus’s “Systema Naturae” was an eleven page work!
A cyanide-laced apple Alan Turing left half-eaten
The statue of Lavoisier with another person's head
Husband would die if the marriage did not take place at a particular time!
C.V. Raman's confidence of winning the Nobel prize in 1930
People eating brown rice were less vulnerable to beri-beri
Alfred Nobel remained unmarried and had at least three loves
A test of the Archimedes heat ray
Andreas Vesalius's body was thrown to the animals!
A plot to kill Einstein was fined a mere six dollars!
"To the widow of Lavoisier, who was falsely convicted"
Carl Linnaeus thought of himself as a second Adam
Public dissection of the body of a notorious criminal
The Golden Crown
Archimedes and his mathematical instruments
Carl Friedrich Gauss's father wanted him to become a Mason
The merchant of death is dead
Archimedes repelled Roman attack with burning-glass!
All telephones in United States stilled ringing for a silent minute.
Sickness is the natural state of Christians
Leeuwenhoek's most critical secret creating Lenses
The ship shaker
Albert Einstein’s creature who equal, as strong and independent
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