Nine Luminaries Of Science : Interesting And Inspiring Facts About The Personal Lives Of These Great Men And Woman

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 Idiosyncrasieslittle 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-CurieS 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.-CurieS And HawkingS Parents Were Highly Educated; NewtonS Parents Were Illiterate-E = Mc2 Is Not EinsteinS Full Equation; And Its Negative Counterpart Led To The Idea Of Antimatter