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STORIES FROM THE LIFE OF GREAT SCIENTISTS
Obsessed with Anna Ivanova Popova, Dmitri Mendeleev threatened suicide if she refused
Christiaan Barnard - the superstar surgeon become the doctor of hearts (love)
Those who have been saved from Titanic disaster, have been saved through Mr. Marconi and his invention
Clara Immerwahr’s suicide protesting use of Poisonous gages in World War 1
Leeuwenhoek’s critical secret of creating of Lenses
Smallpox Vaccine from Cowpox blisters - Edward Jenner
The Archimedes Screw
"Eureka!" "Eureka!" - "I have found it!"
Brown rice, beri-beri and formulation of Vitamines
The curious life of Blaise Pascal, like a religious fiction
The first Asian and first non-White to get any Nobel Prize in Science
Franck Report and dropping of atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Blaise Pascal illness
John Napier used his Black Rooster to find out the servants stealing from his home
The curious prediction of Bhaskarachārya about his daughter Lilavathi
Hennig Brand’s experiments for the philosopher's stone with 5500 litres of Unine
World’s first successful human-to-human heart transplant - Christiaan Barnard
The Archimedes Heat Ray
The Claw of Archimedes
Charles Babbage’s steam powered Computers, weighing 13,600 kg
Galileo’s controversy with Church - Pope’s regret for how the Galileo affair was handled
Lavoisier’s respiration experiment in a guinea pig
Charles Darwin’s advantages and disadvantages of Marriage
Carl Linnaeus, the second Adam: "God created, Linnaeus organized"
Charles Darwin's illness
Charles Darwin's undiagnosed illness and relationship with his wife
Friedrich Gauss, as a child prodigy and his desire to inscribe a heptadecagon on the Tombstone
Priestley Riots or Birmingham Riots
Fritz Haber’s chemical warfare with poisonous gases and suicide of his wife
Claude Bernard’s Vivisection, suffering of Animals and a divorce!
Mini Stories of Great Lives
The ship shaker
The merchant of death is dead
"To the widow of Lavoisier, who was falsely convicted"
The first long distance automobile trip in History
C.V. Raman's confidence of winning the Nobel prize in 1930
Archimedes's Last Problem
Carl Friedrich Gauss's father wanted him to become a Mason
Ampère’s father was executed as a victim of French revolution
It took them only an instant to cut off his head!
Husband would die if the marriage did not take place at a particular time!
The Golden Crown
A plot to kill Einstein was fined a mere six dollars!
The statue of Lavoisier with another person's head
The preserved brain of the Prince of Mathematicians
Wife is dying - "Tell her to wait a moment till I'm done."
Alfred Nobel’s love letters
Alexander Fleming revolutionized all medicine in a day
The Republic needs neither scientists nor chemists
All telephones in United States stilled ringing for a silent minute.
Pascal wore stockings steeped in brandy to warm his feet
Archimedes and his mathematical instruments
Alfred Nobel remained unmarried and had at least three loves
The three culminating points in Ampère's life
A cyanide-laced apple Alan Turing left half-eaten
Albert Einstein’s creature who equal, as strong and independent
Archimedes repelled Roman attack with burning-glass!
Public dissection of the body of a notorious criminal
Alexander Graham Bell's mother and wife were deaf
Carl Linnaeus thought of himself as a second Adam
Pascal's last words being "May God never abandon me"
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