Great Scientists
STORIES FROM THE LIFE OF GREAT MEN
Galileo’s controversy with Church - Pope’s regret for how the Galileo affair was handled
The invention of Dynamite by “the merchant of Death
Christiaan Barnard - the superstar surgeon become the doctor of hearts (love)
John Napier used his Black Rooster to find out the servants stealing from his home
Homosexuality of Alan Mathison Turing – Prosecution and punishment
Clara Immerwahr’s suicide protesting use of Poisonous gages in World War 1
Albert Einstein’s Love affair and his Marriage
The Claw of Archimedes
Carl Linnaeus, the second Adam: "God created, Linnaeus organized"
The first commercial automobile - Karl Benz’s Horseless Tri-Car
Obsessed with Anna Ivanova Popova, Dmitri Mendeleev threatened suicide if she refused
Fritz Haber’s chemical warfare with poisonous gases and suicide of his wife
The curious prediction of Bhaskarachārya about his daughter Lilavathi
Miracle Year Papers of Albert Einstein
The curious life of Blaise Pascal, like a religious fiction
The tragedies in the Life of in Ampere, the discoverer of electromagnetism
The first Asian and first non-White to get any Nobel Prize in Science
Hennig Brand’s experiments for the philosopher's stone with 5500 litres of Unine
The Archimedes Heat Ray
Franck Report and dropping of atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Charles Darwin’s advantages and disadvantages of Marriage
Claude Bernard’s Vivisection, suffering of Animals and a divorce!
Alhazen, the father of optics, feigned madness to escape from the wrath of Egypt Ruler
Alhazen's famous Billiard Table problem
Connect two different metals in series with the frog's leg and make Battery
Priestley Riots or Birmingham Riots
Premature obituary and the foundation of Nobel Prizes
The Execution (guillotine) of Lavoisier
Lavoisier’s respiration experiment in a guinea pig
The Archimedes Screw
World’s first successful human-to-human heart transplant - Christiaan Barnard
Carl Linnaeus’s classification of Human being
The three Loves of unmarried Alfred Nobel
Blaise Pascal illness
A man composed a plot to kill Einstein was fined a mere six dollars!
Cyanide poisoning of Alan Turing
Charles Darwin's illness
Albert Bruce Sabin's "live"-virus vaccine
Charles Babbage’s steam powered Computers, weighing 13,600 kg
Brown rice, beri-beri and formulation of Vitamines
Friedrich Gauss, as a child prodigy and his desire to inscribe a heptadecagon on the Tombstone
Alexander Graham Bell’s institute for the Deaf and his deaf wife
The first step for intelligent computers - the Automatic Computing Engine.
Revolutionary Discovery of Telephone by Alexander Graham Bell
"Eureka!" "Eureka!" - "I have found it!"
Smallpox Vaccine from Cowpox blisters - Edward Jenner
Friedrich Gauss, the wonderful mental calculator and the dwarf planet
The strange end of Andreas Vesalius, the founder of modern Anatomy
Revolutionary Discovery of world's first antibiotic or bacteria killer: Penicillin
Leeuwenhoek’s critical secret of creating of Lenses
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Mini Stories of Great Lives
A cyanide-laced apple Alan Turing left half-eaten
Sequence of deaths in the life of Carl Friedrich Gauss
The Golden Crown
Alhazen, the father of modern optics, feigned madness
The first long distance automobile trip in History
Alexander Graham Bell's mother and wife were deaf
C.V. Raman's confidence of winning the Nobel prize in 1930
Sickness is the natural state of Christians
Gauss's request to inscribe a heptadecagon on his tombstone
The merchant of death is dead
Carl Friedrich Gauss - a child prodigy
People eating brown rice were less vulnerable to beri-beri
"Fire. God of Abraham,Isaac & Jacob, not of the philosophers and the scholars…"
Archimedes's Last Problem
Pascal's last words being "May God never abandon me"
The three culminating points in Ampère's life
Carl Linnaeus’s “Systema Naturae” was an eleven page work!
Alfred Nobel remained unmarried and had at least three loves
A test of the Archimedes heat ray
"To the widow of Lavoisier, who was falsely convicted"
A plot to kill Einstein was fined a mere six dollars!
Public dissection of the body of a notorious criminal
It took them only an instant to cut off his head!
The Republic needs neither scientists nor chemists
Andreas Vesalius's body was thrown to the animals!
Alfred Nobel’s love letters
The prayer of Ampere on his wife's death
The preserved brain of the Prince of Mathematicians
Husband would die if the marriage did not take place at a particular time!
Ampère’s father was executed as a victim of French revolution
Pascal wore stockings steeped in brandy to warm his feet
Leeuwenhoek's most critical secret creating Lenses
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