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STORIES FROM THE LIFE OF GREAT SCIENTISTS
John Napier used his Black Rooster to find out the servants stealing from his home
Those who have been saved from Titanic disaster, have been saved through Mr. Marconi and his invention
Fritz Haber’s chemical warfare with poisonous gases and suicide of his wife
The Archimedes Screw
Charles Darwin’s advantages and disadvantages of Marriage
Carl Linnaeus, the second Adam: "God created, Linnaeus organized"
Lavoisier’s respiration experiment in a guinea pig
The Archimedes Heat Ray
"Eureka!" "Eureka!" - "I have found it!"
Claude Bernard’s Vivisection, suffering of Animals and a divorce!
Christiaan Barnard - the superstar surgeon become the doctor of hearts (love)
Charles Darwin's illness
Blaise Pascal illness
Charles Babbage’s steam powered Computers, weighing 13,600 kg
World’s first successful human-to-human heart transplant - Christiaan Barnard
Smallpox Vaccine from Cowpox blisters - Edward Jenner
Charles Darwin's undiagnosed illness and relationship with his wife
Clara Immerwahr’s suicide protesting use of Poisonous gages in World War 1
The Claw of Archimedes
Brown rice, beri-beri and formulation of Vitamines
Franck Report and dropping of atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki
The curious prediction of Bhaskarachārya about his daughter Lilavathi
Leeuwenhoek’s critical secret of creating of Lenses
Priestley Riots or Birmingham Riots
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
Galileo’s controversy with Church - Pope’s regret for how the Galileo affair was handled
Friedrich Gauss, as a child prodigy and his desire to inscribe a heptadecagon on the Tombstone
The curious life of Blaise Pascal, like a religious fiction
The first Asian and first non-White to get any Nobel Prize in Science
Mini Stories of Great Lives
Leeuwenhoek's most critical secret creating Lenses
Andreas Vesalius's body was thrown to the animals!
Alfred Nobel remained unmarried and had at least three loves
The three culminating points in Ampère's life
The Golden Crown
A cyanide-laced apple Alan Turing left half-eaten
The preserved brain of the Prince of Mathematicians
Alhazen, the father of modern optics, feigned madness
People eating brown rice were less vulnerable to beri-beri
Carl Linnaeus’s “Systema Naturae” was an eleven page work!
Archimedes repelled Roman attack with burning-glass!
It took them only an instant to cut off his head!
Alexander Fleming revolutionized all medicine in a day
"Fire. God of Abraham,Isaac & Jacob, not of the philosophers and the scholars…"
Carl Linnaeus thought of himself as a second Adam
The prayer of Ampere on his wife's death
Husband would die if the marriage did not take place at a particular time!
Thermometer with 100 as the melting point of ice and 0 the boiling point of water
A plot to kill Einstein was fined a mere six dollars!
C.V. Raman's confidence of winning the Nobel prize in 1930
Alexander Graham Bell's mother and wife were deaf
Wife is dying - "Tell her to wait a moment till I'm done."
All telephones in United States stilled ringing for a silent minute.
Pascal wore stockings steeped in brandy to warm his feet
Pascal's last words being "May God never abandon me"
Ampère’s father was executed as a victim of French revolution
The Republic needs neither scientists nor chemists
Sequence of deaths in the life of Carl Friedrich Gauss
Archimedes and his mathematical instruments
Carl Friedrich Gauss - a child prodigy
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