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STORIES FROM THE LIFE OF GREAT SCIENTISTS
Smallpox Vaccine from Cowpox blisters - Edward Jenner
Charles Darwin's undiagnosed illness and relationship with his wife
Carl Linnaeus, the second Adam: "God created, Linnaeus organized"
The Archimedes Heat Ray
Galileo’s controversy with Church - Pope’s regret for how the Galileo affair was handled
Fritz Haber’s chemical warfare with poisonous gases and suicide of his wife
Claude Bernard’s Vivisection, suffering of Animals and a divorce!
The curious prediction of Bhaskarachārya about his daughter Lilavathi
The first Asian and first non-White to get any Nobel Prize in Science
Leeuwenhoek’s critical secret of creating of Lenses
Priestley Riots or Birmingham Riots
Franck Report and dropping of atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Those who have been saved from Titanic disaster, have been saved through Mr. Marconi and his invention
Lavoisier’s respiration experiment in a guinea pig
World’s first successful human-to-human heart transplant - Christiaan Barnard
Hennig Brand’s experiments for the philosopher's stone with 5500 litres of Unine
Obsessed with Anna Ivanova Popova, Dmitri Mendeleev threatened suicide if she refused
"Eureka!" "Eureka!" - "I have found it!"
Charles Darwin’s advantages and disadvantages of Marriage
The Archimedes Screw
John Napier used his Black Rooster to find out the servants stealing from his home
Charles Darwin's illness
The Claw of Archimedes
The curious life of Blaise Pascal, like a religious fiction
Charles Babbage’s steam powered Computers, weighing 13,600 kg
Brown rice, beri-beri and formulation of Vitamines
Clara Immerwahr’s suicide protesting use of Poisonous gages in World War 1
Friedrich Gauss, as a child prodigy and his desire to inscribe a heptadecagon on the Tombstone
Blaise Pascal illness
Christiaan Barnard - the superstar surgeon become the doctor of hearts (love)
Mini Stories of Great Lives
Alexander Fleming revolutionized all medicine in a day
Vesalius wperformed an autopsy on an aristocrat when the heart was still beating?
Archimedes repelled Roman attack with burning-glass!
Carl Linnaeus’s “Systema Naturae” was an eleven page work!
Pascal wore stockings steeped in brandy to warm his feet
Husband would die if the marriage did not take place at a particular time!
Archimedes's Last Problem
Albert Einstein’s creature who equal, as strong and independent
The three culminating points in Ampère's life
Sickness is the natural state of Christians
A test of the Archimedes heat ray
Wife is dying - "Tell her to wait a moment till I'm done."
Sequence of deaths in the life of Carl Friedrich Gauss
Leeuwenhoek's most critical secret creating Lenses
Pascal's last words being "May God never abandon me"
The Republic needs neither scientists nor chemists
A plot to kill Einstein was fined a mere six dollars!
Thermometer with 100 as the melting point of ice and 0 the boiling point of water
Alfred Nobel’s love letters
The statue of Lavoisier with another person's head
Premature obituary and Nobel Prize
All telephones in United States stilled ringing for a silent minute.
Public dissection of the body of a notorious criminal
"To the widow of Lavoisier, who was falsely convicted"
Andreas Vesalius's body was thrown to the animals!
The Golden Crown
Carl Friedrich Gauss's father wanted him to become a Mason
It took them only an instant to cut off his head!
Archimedes and his mathematical instruments
The preserved brain of the Prince of Mathematicians
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