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STORIES FROM THE LIFE OF GREAT SCIENTISTS
The Archimedes Screw
Obsessed with Anna Ivanova Popova, Dmitri Mendeleev threatened suicide if she refused
Charles Darwin's undiagnosed illness and relationship with his wife
Blaise Pascal illness
The Archimedes Heat Ray
Claude Bernard’s Vivisection, suffering of Animals and a divorce!
Hennig Brand’s experiments for the philosopher's stone with 5500 litres of Unine
The first Asian and first non-White to get any Nobel Prize in Science
Christiaan Barnard - the superstar surgeon become the doctor of hearts (love)
Friedrich Gauss, as a child prodigy and his desire to inscribe a heptadecagon on the Tombstone
Charles Darwin's illness
The Claw of Archimedes
World’s first successful human-to-human heart transplant - Christiaan Barnard
Charles Darwin’s advantages and disadvantages of Marriage
Galileo’s controversy with Church - Pope’s regret for how the Galileo affair was handled
Brown rice, beri-beri and formulation of Vitamines
Those who have been saved from Titanic disaster, have been saved through Mr. Marconi and his invention
"Eureka!" "Eureka!" - "I have found it!"
Smallpox Vaccine from Cowpox blisters - Edward Jenner
Charles Babbage’s steam powered Computers, weighing 13,600 kg
Priestley Riots or Birmingham Riots
Lavoisier’s respiration experiment in a guinea pig
The curious prediction of Bhaskarachārya about his daughter Lilavathi
Clara Immerwahr’s suicide protesting use of Poisonous gages in World War 1
Carl Linnaeus, the second Adam: "God created, Linnaeus organized"
John Napier used his Black Rooster to find out the servants stealing from his home
Fritz Haber’s chemical warfare with poisonous gases and suicide of his wife
Leeuwenhoek’s critical secret of creating of Lenses
Franck Report and dropping of atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki
The curious life of Blaise Pascal, like a religious fiction
Mini Stories of Great Lives
The Republic needs neither scientists nor chemists
Thermometer with 100 as the melting point of ice and 0 the boiling point of water
Sequence of deaths in the life of Carl Friedrich Gauss
Alexander Graham Bell's mother and wife were deaf
People eating brown rice were less vulnerable to beri-beri
A plot to kill Einstein was fined a mere six dollars!
Alfred Nobel’s love letters
Alexander Fleming revolutionized all medicine in a day
It took them only an instant to cut off his head!
Sickness is the natural state of Christians
Pascal's last words being "May God never abandon me"
C.V. Raman's confidence of winning the Nobel prize in 1930
The preserved brain of the Prince of Mathematicians
Ampère’s father was executed as a victim of French revolution
Husband would die if the marriage did not take place at a particular time!
Andreas Vesalius's body was thrown to the animals!
The first long distance automobile trip in History
The prayer of Ampere on his wife's death
Archimedes repelled Roman attack with burning-glass!
Carl Friedrich Gauss's father wanted him to become a Mason
Alhazen, the father of modern optics, feigned madness
Carl Linnaeus thought of himself as a second Adam
The merchant of death is dead
"To the widow of Lavoisier, who was falsely convicted"
Carl Linnaeus’s “Systema Naturae” was an eleven page work!
Alan Turing was criminally prosecuted for homosexuality
Carl Friedrich Gauss - a child prodigy
Gauss's request to inscribe a heptadecagon on his tombstone
A test of the Archimedes heat ray
The ship shaker
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