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STORIES FROM THE LIFE OF GREAT SCIENTISTS
Clara Immerwahr’s suicide protesting use of Poisonous gages in World War 1
Leeuwenhoek’s critical secret of creating of Lenses
Franck Report and dropping of atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki
The curious prediction of Bhaskarachārya about his daughter Lilavathi
Blaise Pascal illness
Obsessed with Anna Ivanova Popova, Dmitri Mendeleev threatened suicide if she refused
Charles Darwin's illness
Priestley Riots or Birmingham Riots
The first Asian and first non-White to get any Nobel Prize in Science
Fritz Haber’s chemical warfare with poisonous gases and suicide of his wife
Claude Bernard’s Vivisection, suffering of Animals and a divorce!
John Napier used his Black Rooster to find out the servants stealing from his home
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)
Charles Darwin’s advantages and disadvantages of Marriage
Friedrich Gauss, as a child prodigy and his desire to inscribe a heptadecagon on the Tombstone
Hennig Brand’s experiments for the philosopher's stone with 5500 litres of Unine
The Archimedes Screw
Carl Linnaeus, the second Adam: "God created, Linnaeus organized"
The curious life of Blaise Pascal, like a religious fiction
Charles Babbage’s steam powered Computers, weighing 13,600 kg
The Claw of Archimedes
Charles Darwin's undiagnosed illness and relationship with his wife
Those who have been saved from Titanic disaster, have been saved through Mr. Marconi and his invention
The Archimedes Heat Ray
World’s first successful human-to-human heart transplant - Christiaan Barnard
Lavoisier’s respiration experiment in a guinea pig
"Eureka!" "Eureka!" - "I have found it!"
Brown rice, beri-beri and formulation of Vitamines
Smallpox Vaccine from Cowpox blisters - Edward Jenner
Mini Stories of Great Lives
The Golden Crown
The prayer of Ampere on his wife's death
Archimedes's Last Problem
C.V. Raman's confidence of winning the Nobel prize in 1930
It took them only an instant to cut off his head!
A plot to kill Einstein was fined a mere six dollars!
Sequence of deaths in the life of Carl Friedrich Gauss
Alexander Graham Bell's mother and wife were deaf
Thermometer with 100 as the melting point of ice and 0 the boiling point of water
All telephones in United States stilled ringing for a silent minute.
Carl Friedrich Gauss's father wanted him to become a Mason
A cyanide-laced apple Alan Turing left half-eaten
Pascal wore stockings steeped in brandy to warm his feet
Wife is dying - "Tell her to wait a moment till I'm done."
Alexander Fleming revolutionized all medicine in a day
The first long distance automobile trip in History
Archimedes repelled Roman attack with burning-glass!
The statue of Lavoisier with another person's head
The ship shaker
Carl Linnaeus thought of himself as a second Adam
Carl Friedrich Gauss - a child prodigy
Premature obituary and Nobel Prize
Vesalius wperformed an autopsy on an aristocrat when the heart was still beating?
People eating brown rice were less vulnerable to beri-beri
Carl Linnaeus’s “Systema Naturae” was an eleven page work!
Archimedes and his mathematical instruments
Sickness is the natural state of Christians
Ampère’s father was executed as a victim of French revolution
Public dissection of the body of a notorious criminal
The three culminating points in Ampère's life
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