Great Scientists
STORIES FROM THE LIFE OF GREAT MEN
Brown rice, beri-beri and formulation of Vitamines
Franck Report and dropping of atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki
The first commercial automobile - Karl Benz’s Horseless Tri-Car
Obsessed with Anna Ivanova Popova, Dmitri Mendeleev threatened suicide if she refused
The strange end of Andreas Vesalius, the founder of modern Anatomy
Pascal’s experiments with Vaccum
Cyanide poisoning of Alan Turing
The first step for intelligent computers - the Automatic Computing Engine.
The Claw of Archimedes
Connect two different metals in series with the frog's leg and make Battery
Homosexuality of Alan Mathison Turing – Prosecution and punishment
The tragedies in the Life of in Ampere, the discoverer of electromagnetism
Revolutionary Discovery of world's first antibiotic or bacteria killer: Penicillin
Alexander Graham Bell’s institute for the Deaf and his deaf wife
The curious prediction of Bhaskarachārya about his daughter Lilavathi
Clara Immerwahr’s suicide protesting use of Poisonous gages in World War 1
Alhazen's famous Billiard Table problem
John Napier used his Black Rooster to find out the servants stealing from his home
A man composed a plot to kill Einstein was fined a mere six dollars!
Priestley Riots or Birmingham Riots
Carl Linnaeus’s classification of Human being
Charles Darwin’s advantages and disadvantages of Marriage
During World War I Antiseptics actually killed more soldiers than infection
The curious life of Blaise Pascal, like a religious fiction
"Eureka!" "Eureka!" - "I have found it!"
World’s first successful human-to-human heart transplant - Christiaan Barnard
Charles Darwin's undiagnosed illness and relationship with his wife
Charles Babbage’s steam powered Computers, weighing 13,600 kg
The three Loves of unmarried Alfred Nobel
Christiaan Barnard - the superstar surgeon become the doctor of hearts (love)
Lavoisier’s respiration experiment in a guinea pig
Friedrich Gauss, the wonderful mental calculator and the dwarf planet
Galileo’s controversy with Church - Pope’s regret for how the Galileo affair was handled
Those who have been saved from Titanic disaster, have been saved through Mr. Marconi and his invention
Revolutionary Discovery of Telephone by Alexander Graham Bell
The Archimedes Heat Ray
Alhazen, the father of optics, feigned madness to escape from the wrath of Egypt Ruler
Fritz Haber’s chemical warfare with poisonous gases and suicide of his wife
The death of Archimedes during the Siege of Syracuse
Miracle Year Papers of Albert Einstein
Claude Bernard’s Vivisection, suffering of Animals and a divorce!
Premature obituary and the foundation of Nobel Prizes
Smallpox Vaccine from Cowpox blisters - Edward Jenner
Hennig Brand’s experiments for the philosopher's stone with 5500 litres of Unine
Albert Bruce Sabin's "live"-virus vaccine
The invention of Dynamite by “the merchant of Death
Charles Darwin's illness
Friedrich Gauss, as a child prodigy and his desire to inscribe a heptadecagon on the Tombstone
Carl Linnaeus, the second Adam: "God created, Linnaeus organized"
The first Asian and first non-White to get any Nobel Prize in Science
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Mini Stories of Great Lives
Archimedes repelled Roman attack with burning-glass!
Sickness is the natural state of Christians
C.V. Raman's confidence of winning the Nobel prize in 1930
Husband would die if the marriage did not take place at a particular time!
Alfred Nobel remained unmarried and had at least three loves
Carl Linnaeus’s “Systema Naturae” was an eleven page work!
Ampère’s father was executed as a victim of French revolution
"Fire. God of Abraham,Isaac & Jacob, not of the philosophers and the scholars…"
Archimedes's Last Problem
Thermometer with 100 as the melting point of ice and 0 the boiling point of water
The prayer of Ampere on his wife's death
Alhazen, the father of modern optics, feigned madness
Alexander Graham Bell's mother and wife were deaf
A cyanide-laced apple Alan Turing left half-eaten
The ship shaker
The merchant of death is dead
The first long distance automobile trip in History
Carl Friedrich Gauss - a child prodigy
Alan Turing was criminally prosecuted for homosexuality
Pascal wore stockings steeped in brandy to warm his feet
Public dissection of the body of a notorious criminal
Andreas Vesalius's body was thrown to the animals!
A plot to kill Einstein was fined a mere six dollars!
Pascal's last words being "May God never abandon me"
Carl Friedrich Gauss's father wanted him to become a Mason
Carl Linnaeus thought of himself as a second Adam
Vesalius wperformed an autopsy on an aristocrat when the heart was still beating?
Archimedes and his mathematical instruments
Albert Einstein’s creature who equal, as strong and independent
The Golden Crown
People eating brown rice were less vulnerable to beri-beri
All telephones in United States stilled ringing for a silent minute.
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