Great Scientists
STORIES FROM THE LIFE OF GREAT MEN
The Archimedes Screw
Those who have been saved from Titanic disaster, have been saved through Mr. Marconi and his invention
Premature obituary and the foundation of Nobel Prizes
"Eureka!" "Eureka!" - "I have found it!"
Charles Babbage’s steam powered Computers, weighing 13,600 kg
Albert Einstein’s Love affair and his Marriage
A man composed a plot to kill Einstein was fined a mere six dollars!
Obsessed with Anna Ivanova Popova, Dmitri Mendeleev threatened suicide if she refused
Franck Report and dropping of atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki
The tragedies in the Life of in Ampere, the discoverer of electromagnetism
Blaise Pascal illness
Smallpox Vaccine from Cowpox blisters - Edward Jenner
Friedrich Gauss, the wonderful mental calculator and the dwarf planet
Claude Bernard’s Vivisection, suffering of Animals and a divorce!
The invention of Dynamite by “the merchant of Death
World’s first successful human-to-human heart transplant - Christiaan Barnard
Alexander Graham Bell’s institute for the Deaf and his deaf wife
Priestley Riots or Birmingham Riots
Charles Darwin's undiagnosed illness and relationship with his wife
The death of Archimedes during the Siege of Syracuse
The three Loves of unmarried Alfred Nobel
The first step for intelligent computers - the Automatic Computing Engine.
The Execution (guillotine) of Lavoisier
Charles Darwin’s advantages and disadvantages of Marriage
During World War I Antiseptics actually killed more soldiers than infection
The first commercial automobile - Karl Benz’s Horseless Tri-Car
Pascal’s experiments with Vaccum
Alhazen's famous Billiard Table problem
Albert Bruce Sabin's "live"-virus vaccine
Hennig Brand’s experiments for the philosopher's stone with 5500 litres of Unine
Revolutionary Discovery of Telephone by Alexander Graham Bell
Brown rice, beri-beri and formulation of Vitamines
Lavoisier’s respiration experiment in a guinea pig
Alan Turing’s signs of the genius and his teachers
Leeuwenhoek’s critical secret of creating of Lenses
The strange end of Andreas Vesalius, the founder of modern Anatomy
Cyanide poisoning of Alan Turing
Fritz Haber’s chemical warfare with poisonous gases and suicide of his wife
The curious prediction of Bhaskarachārya about his daughter Lilavathi
Christiaan Barnard - the superstar surgeon become the doctor of hearts (love)
John Napier used his Black Rooster to find out the servants stealing from his home
The Archimedes Heat Ray
Carl Linnaeus’s classification of Human being
Clara Immerwahr’s suicide protesting use of Poisonous gages in World War 1
Galileo’s controversy with Church - Pope’s regret for how the Galileo affair was handled
Connect two different metals in series with the frog's leg and make Battery
The first Asian and first non-White to get any Nobel Prize in Science
Revolutionary Discovery of world's first antibiotic or bacteria killer: Penicillin
Carl Linnaeus, the second Adam: "God created, Linnaeus organized"
Friedrich Gauss, as a child prodigy and his desire to inscribe a heptadecagon on the Tombstone
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Mini Stories of Great Lives
Sequence of deaths in the life of Carl Friedrich Gauss
The merchant of death is dead
Husband would die if the marriage did not take place at a particular time!
Premature obituary and Nobel Prize
Alexander Graham Bell's mother and wife were deaf
Ampère’s father was executed as a victim of French revolution
Pascal's last words being "May God never abandon me"
Carl Friedrich Gauss - a child prodigy
The statue of Lavoisier with another person's head
All telephones in United States stilled ringing for a silent minute.
Public dissection of the body of a notorious criminal
The ship shaker
The Republic needs neither scientists nor chemists
Archimedes and his mathematical instruments
Alfred Nobel remained unmarried and had at least three loves
Alhazen, the father of modern optics, feigned madness
Pascal wore stockings steeped in brandy to warm his feet
"To the widow of Lavoisier, who was falsely convicted"
Vesalius wperformed an autopsy on an aristocrat when the heart was still beating?
Andreas Vesalius's body was thrown to the animals!
Carl Linnaeus thought of himself as a second Adam
A plot to kill Einstein was fined a mere six dollars!
Archimedes's Last Problem
People eating brown rice were less vulnerable to beri-beri
"Fire. God of Abraham,Isaac & Jacob, not of the philosophers and the scholars…"
Sickness is the natural state of Christians
Albert Einstein’s creature who equal, as strong and independent
Carl Friedrich Gauss's father wanted him to become a Mason
Alexander Fleming revolutionized all medicine in a day
C.V. Raman's confidence of winning the Nobel prize in 1930
It took them only an instant to cut off his head!
The three culminating points in Ampère's life
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