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STORIES FROM THE LIFE OF GREAT SCIENTISTS
The Claw of Archimedes
Albert Bruce Sabin's "live"-virus vaccine
Galileo’s controversy with Church - Pope’s regret for how the Galileo affair was handled
Carl Linnaeus, the second Adam: "God created, Linnaeus organized"
The death of Archimedes during the Siege of Syracuse
The first Asian and first non-White to get any Nobel Prize in Science
"Eureka!" "Eureka!" - "I have found it!"
The invention of Dynamite by “the merchant of Death
World’s first successful human-to-human heart transplant - Christiaan Barnard
Fritz Haber’s chemical warfare with poisonous gases and suicide of his wife
Franck Report and dropping of atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Alexander Graham Bell’s institute for the Deaf and his deaf wife
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
A man composed a plot to kill Einstein was fined a mere six dollars!
The Archimedes Screw
Miracle Year Papers of Albert Einstein
Cyanide poisoning of Alan Turing
Friedrich Gauss, the wonderful mental calculator and the dwarf planet
Pascal’s experiments with Vaccum
Smallpox Vaccine from Cowpox blisters - Edward Jenner
Carl Linnaeus’s classification of Human being
Those who have been saved from Titanic disaster, have been saved through Mr. Marconi and his invention
The tragedies in the Life of in Ampere, the discoverer of electromagnetism
Blaise Pascal illness
Leeuwenhoek’s critical secret of creating of Lenses
The strange end of Andreas Vesalius, the founder of modern Anatomy
Christiaan Barnard - the superstar surgeon become the doctor of hearts (love)
Revolutionary Discovery of world's first antibiotic or bacteria killer: Penicillin
Premature obituary and the foundation of Nobel Prizes
The Execution (guillotine) of Lavoisier
Clara Immerwahr’s suicide protesting use of Poisonous gages in World War 1
Charles Babbage’s steam powered Computers, weighing 13,600 kg
Brown rice, beri-beri and formulation of Vitamines
Revolutionary Discovery of Telephone by Alexander Graham Bell
Alhazen's famous Billiard Table problem
During World War I Antiseptics actually killed more soldiers than infection
The first commercial automobile - Karl Benz’s Horseless Tri-Car
Connect two different metals in series with the frog's leg and make Battery
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
The curious prediction of Bhaskarachārya about his daughter Lilavathi
Obsessed with Anna Ivanova Popova, Dmitri Mendeleev threatened suicide if she refused
Charles Darwin's illness
Priestley Riots or Birmingham Riots
Friedrich Gauss, as a child prodigy and his desire to inscribe a heptadecagon on the Tombstone
Charles Darwin’s advantages and disadvantages of Marriage
Albert Einstein’s Love affair and his Marriage
The first step for intelligent computers - the Automatic Computing Engine.
Hennig Brand’s experiments for the philosopher's stone with 5500 litres of Unine
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Mini Stories of Great Lives
Thermometer with 100 as the melting point of ice and 0 the boiling point of water
Carl Friedrich Gauss - a child prodigy
Alfred Nobel remained unmarried and had at least three loves
"Fire. God of Abraham,Isaac & Jacob, not of the philosophers and the scholars…"
Alhazen, the father of modern optics, feigned madness
The prayer of Ampere on his wife's death
The Republic needs neither scientists nor chemists
Alan Turing was criminally prosecuted for homosexuality
The Golden Crown
Pascal wore stockings steeped in brandy to warm his feet
Alexander Fleming revolutionized all medicine in a day
Sequence of deaths in the life of Carl Friedrich Gauss
The ship shaker
The first long distance automobile trip in History
Gauss's request to inscribe a heptadecagon on his tombstone
Alfred Nobel’s love letters
Carl Linnaeus thought of himself as a second Adam
Sickness is the natural state of Christians
People eating brown rice were less vulnerable to beri-beri
Andreas Vesalius's body was thrown to the animals!
Alexander Graham Bell's mother and wife were deaf
Pascal's last words being "May God never abandon me"
Husband would die if the marriage did not take place at a particular time!
It took them only an instant to cut off his head!
Vesalius wperformed an autopsy on an aristocrat when the heart was still beating?
The merchant of death is dead
A plot to kill Einstein was fined a mere six dollars!
C.V. Raman's confidence of winning the Nobel prize in 1930
"To the widow of Lavoisier, who was falsely convicted"
The statue of Lavoisier with another person's head
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