Nine Luminaries Of Science

ebook ∣ Interesting and Inspiring Facts about the Personal Lives of These Great Men and Woman

By Joseph Mani

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ebook

Author

Joseph Mani

Publisher

Notion Press

Release

09 July 2019

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Biography & Autobiography Nonfiction

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In this book we look at the lives of nine eminent scientists – Copernicus, Galileo, Newton, Curie, Bose, Einstein, Raman, Feynman and Hawking – not so much as scientists but as human beings, their family lives, their religious beliefs, their values and their idiosyncrasies

Little known facts:

  • Copernicus had a doctorate in Church Law and was a senior official of the Catholic Church till his death

  • Einstein invented a new type of refrigerator; Curie could not afford to buy even 1 gram of the element she discovered

  • Curie and Einstein thought of suicide; Hawking attempted suicide

  • Newton waited at tables and cleaned rooms of rich classmates to pay his college fees; Curie could not afford a full meal during her student days.

  • Copernicus, Galileo, Newton and Bose were deeply religious; Einstein and Raman were pantheists; Curie was an agnostic; Feynman and Hawking were atheists

  • Curie's died of her own discovery; her notebooks are still radioactive and will remain so for the next 1500 years

  • Newton spent the last thirty years of his life in alchemy, Bible studies and catching and putting to death counterfeiters; Einstein spent the last thirty years of his life in a lonely, frustrating attempt to develop the Unified Theory, abandoned and even ridiculed by his fellow scientists.

  • Curie's and Hawking's parents were highly educated; Newton's parents were illiterate

  • E = mc2 is not Einstein's full equation; and its negative counterpart led to the idea of antimatter

    • Format

    ebook

    Author

    Joseph Mani

    Publisher

    Notion Press

    Release

    09 July 2019

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    Subjects

    Biography & Autobiography Nonfiction
    Nine Luminaries Of Science