Great Scientists
STORIES FROM THE LIFE OF GREAT MEN
Blaise Pascal illness
Obsessed with Anna Ivanova Popova, Dmitri Mendeleev threatened suicide if she refused
Revolutionary Discovery of Telephone by Alexander Graham Bell
Alhazen, the father of optics, feigned madness to escape from the wrath of Egypt Ruler
Charles Babbage’s steam powered Computers, weighing 13,600 kg
Charles Darwin's illness
Lavoisier’s respiration experiment in a guinea pig
Carl Linnaeus, the second Adam: "God created, Linnaeus organized"
The Archimedes Screw
Alhazen's famous Billiard Table problem
The curious prediction of Bhaskarachārya about his daughter Lilavathi
The three Loves of unmarried Alfred Nobel
Christiaan Barnard - the superstar surgeon become the doctor of hearts (love)
During World War I Antiseptics actually killed more soldiers than infection
Charles Darwin's undiagnosed illness and relationship with his wife
Brown rice, beri-beri and formulation of Vitamines
The Execution (guillotine) of Lavoisier
The invention of Dynamite by “the merchant of Death
Albert Bruce Sabin's "live"-virus vaccine
Connect two different metals in series with the frog's leg and make Battery
The first commercial automobile - Karl Benz’s Horseless Tri-Car
A man composed a plot to kill Einstein was fined a mere six dollars!
Franck Report and dropping of atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Galileo’s controversy with Church - Pope’s regret for how the Galileo affair was handled
Friedrich Gauss, the wonderful mental calculator and the dwarf planet
Premature obituary and the foundation of Nobel Prizes
The Claw of Archimedes
Homosexuality of Alan Mathison Turing – Prosecution and punishment
Revolutionary Discovery of world's first antibiotic or bacteria killer: Penicillin
Charles Darwin’s advantages and disadvantages of Marriage
Carl Linnaeus’s classification of Human being
Alexander Graham Bell’s institute for the Deaf and his deaf wife
Clara Immerwahr’s suicide protesting use of Poisonous gages in World War 1
Fritz Haber’s chemical warfare with poisonous gases and suicide of his wife
The first step for intelligent computers - the Automatic Computing Engine.
World’s first successful human-to-human heart transplant - Christiaan Barnard
The death of Archimedes during the Siege of Syracuse
Miracle Year Papers of Albert Einstein
The first Asian and first non-White to get any Nobel Prize in Science
Alan Turing’s signs of the genius and his teachers
Claude Bernard’s Vivisection, suffering of Animals and a divorce!
"Eureka!" "Eureka!" - "I have found it!"
Leeuwenhoek’s critical secret of creating of Lenses
Friedrich Gauss, as a child prodigy and his desire to inscribe a heptadecagon on the Tombstone
Pascal’s experiments with Vaccum
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
Those who have been saved from Titanic disaster, have been saved through Mr. Marconi and his invention
Hennig Brand’s experiments for the philosopher's stone with 5500 litres of Unine
The tragedies in the Life of in Ampere, the discoverer of electromagnetism
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Mini Stories of Great Lives
Carl Friedrich Gauss's father wanted him to become a Mason
The three culminating points in Ampère's life
Thermometer with 100 as the melting point of ice and 0 the boiling point of water
Andreas Vesalius's body was thrown to the animals!
Alan Turing was criminally prosecuted for homosexuality
Archimedes repelled Roman attack with burning-glass!
Carl Linnaeus thought of himself as a second Adam
The Golden Crown
C.V. Raman's confidence of winning the Nobel prize in 1930
The ship shaker
Alexander Fleming revolutionized all medicine in a day
Wife is dying - "Tell her to wait a moment till I'm done."
A test of the Archimedes heat ray
The statue of Lavoisier with another person's head
"To the widow of Lavoisier, who was falsely convicted"
Husband would die if the marriage did not take place at a particular time!
"Fire. God of Abraham,Isaac & Jacob, not of the philosophers and the scholars…"
Alhazen, the father of modern optics, feigned madness
Premature obituary and Nobel Prize
Archimedes's Last Problem
Gauss's request to inscribe a heptadecagon on his tombstone
The prayer of Ampere on his wife's death
Sequence of deaths in the life of Carl Friedrich Gauss
Vesalius wperformed an autopsy on an aristocrat when the heart was still beating?
All telephones in United States stilled ringing for a silent minute.
Alexander Graham Bell's mother and wife were deaf
The preserved brain of the Prince of Mathematicians
The first long distance automobile trip in History
Sickness is the natural state of Christians
People eating brown rice were less vulnerable to beri-beri
Alfred Nobel’s love letters
Pascal wore stockings steeped in brandy to warm his feet
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