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STORIES FROM THE LIFE OF GREAT SCIENTISTS
Alan Turing’s signs of the genius and his teachers
Charles Babbage’s steam powered Computers, weighing 13,600 kg
Albert Bruce Sabin's "live"-virus vaccine
A man composed a plot to kill Einstein was fined a mere six dollars!
Alhazen, the father of optics, feigned madness to escape from the wrath of Egypt Ruler
The three Loves of unmarried Alfred Nobel
Hennig Brand’s experiments for the philosopher's stone with 5500 litres of Unine
During World War I Antiseptics actually killed more soldiers than infection
Carl Linnaeus, the second Adam: "God created, Linnaeus organized"
Obsessed with Anna Ivanova Popova, Dmitri Mendeleev threatened suicide if she refused
World’s first successful human-to-human heart transplant - Christiaan Barnard
Pascal’s experiments with Vaccum
Charles Darwin's undiagnosed illness and relationship with his wife
The Archimedes Heat Ray
The first step for intelligent computers - the Automatic Computing Engine.
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
Franck Report and dropping of atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Charles Darwin's illness
Fritz Haber’s chemical warfare with poisonous gases and suicide of his wife
The Execution (guillotine) of Lavoisier
The Claw of Archimedes
The tragedies in the Life of in Ampere, the discoverer of electromagnetism
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
Brown rice, beri-beri and formulation of Vitamines
Revolutionary Discovery of world's first antibiotic or bacteria killer: Penicillin
The first commercial automobile - Karl Benz’s Horseless Tri-Car
"Eureka!" "Eureka!" - "I have found it!"
Alhazen's famous Billiard Table problem
Lavoisier’s respiration experiment in a guinea pig
Homosexuality of Alan Mathison Turing – Prosecution and punishment
Blaise Pascal illness
Miracle Year Papers of Albert Einstein
Smallpox Vaccine from Cowpox blisters - Edward Jenner
Alexander Graham Bell’s institute for the Deaf and his deaf wife
Priestley Riots or Birmingham Riots
The Archimedes Screw
Claude Bernard’s Vivisection, suffering of Animals and a divorce!
Clara Immerwahr’s suicide protesting use of Poisonous gages in World War 1
The strange end of Andreas Vesalius, the founder of modern Anatomy
The first Asian and first non-White to get any Nobel Prize in Science
The invention of Dynamite by “the merchant of Death
Revolutionary Discovery of Telephone by Alexander Graham Bell
Cyanide poisoning of Alan Turing
The curious prediction of Bhaskarachārya about his daughter Lilavathi
The death of Archimedes during the Siege of Syracuse
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
John Napier used his Black Rooster to find out the servants stealing from his home
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Mini Stories of Great Lives
Archimedes and his mathematical instruments
"To the widow of Lavoisier, who was falsely convicted"
The ship shaker
Carl Friedrich Gauss's father wanted him to become a Mason
The merchant of death is dead
The preserved brain of the Prince of Mathematicians
Husband would die if the marriage did not take place at a particular time!
Alexander Fleming revolutionized all medicine in a day
Carl Linnaeus’s “Systema Naturae” was an eleven page work!
Premature obituary and Nobel Prize
Vesalius wperformed an autopsy on an aristocrat when the heart was still beating?
Pascal wore stockings steeped in brandy to warm his feet
Alexander Graham Bell's mother and wife were deaf
Carl Friedrich Gauss - a child prodigy
C.V. Raman's confidence of winning the Nobel prize in 1930
Public dissection of the body of a notorious criminal
Wife is dying - "Tell her to wait a moment till I'm done."
All telephones in United States stilled ringing for a silent minute.
Leeuwenhoek's most critical secret creating Lenses
Archimedes repelled Roman attack with burning-glass!
Sickness is the natural state of Christians
Ampère’s father was executed as a victim of French revolution
Pascal's last words being "May God never abandon me"
The three culminating points in Ampère's life
Carl Linnaeus thought of himself as a second Adam
People eating brown rice were less vulnerable to beri-beri
The prayer of Ampere on his wife's death
A cyanide-laced apple Alan Turing left half-eaten
Andreas Vesalius's body was thrown to the animals!
Alfred Nobel’s love letters
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