GREAT SCIENTISTS - An Incomplete Version - Tragic Moments in Scientists’ Lives

Sep 22, 2026

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Inspiring biographies that focus on the “pathetic” or tragic moments in the lives of great scientists. Compiled to challenge unprivileged science students, the book pairs brief accounts of major achievements and early life with personal suffering and hardship. It is designed as a guide for consultation in colleges and universities, with an emphasis on helping students who often obtain low exam scores. Feedback is welcomed to improve future editions.

LanguageEnglish

CategoryLiterature

FormatPDF

Pages59

Reading Time1 h 31 min

AccessFree to download

Preface

Contents

Biographical entries (selected)

Socrates

Archimedes

GREAT SCIENTISTS Pathetic side of their lives An INSPIRING book especially for— Unprivileged Science Students –An Incomplete Version ROSS NAZIR ULLAH BLANK PAGE BLANK PAGE PREFACE This book has been compiled in response of two situations; firstly those that I encountered during my teaching experience with science students and secondly talking to friends about the lives and works of scientists. In this book you will find only those scientists who got some pathetic part in their lives. I have tried my best to collect as many scientists as possible that fallin this category. Entries are not listed in alphabetical order. Each entry contains a short account of major achievements and early life followed by pathetic moments in their lives. An important aim is to provide unprivileged students with a challenge. I am particularly concerned about science students obtaining low scores in the exams. It has been designed for personal possession as a guide and for consultation in colleges and universities. All first efforts to develop a genre in a particular direction suffer from the constraints of space and time, and this may have led us to fall short of our selfimposed standards. I became aware in this selection that how fascinating history of scientists’ biography excitingly unveils their values and attitudes. This book has two chief features; firstly, short biographical sketch and secondly, the tragic moments in one person’s life. However, these two features also prove to be the major limitations of mentioning some important, informative, interesting and scientific achievements in the lives of the scientists. I very much welcome feedback from readers, which will enable to improve its coverage or treatment in future editions. Ross Nazir Ullah CONTENTS No. Names Page 1 Socrates 7 2 Archimedes 8 3 Albert Einstein 9 4 Roger Bacon 10 5 Alexander Graham Bell 11 6 John Flamsteed 12 7 William Harvey 13 8 Luigi Galvani 14 9 Edward Jenner 15 10 Michael Faraday 16 11 Sir James Young Simpson 17 12 Charles Robert Darwin 18 13 Louis Pasteur 19 14 Joseph Baron Lister 20 15 Joseph Priestley 21 16 Alan Turing 22 17 Ulugh Beg 23 18 Robert Hutchings Goddard 24 19 John Dalton 25 20 Jonas Edward Salk 26 21 Sir Walter Raleigh 27 22 George Stephenson 28 23 Richard Trevithick 29 24 James Hargreaves 30 25 Yuri Alekseevich Gagarin 31 26 Andreas Vesalius 32 27 Count Alessandro Volta 33 28 Rudolph Diesel 34 29 Diogenes of Sinope 35 30 Antoine Laurent Lavoisier 36 31 Ross Nazir Ullah 37 32 Galileo Galilei 38 33 Sir Isaac Newton 40 34 Thomas Alva Edison 42 35 Benjamin Thomson 44 36 Humphry Davy 46 37 Dmitri Mendeleyev 48 38 Adams Helen Keller 50 39 Pierre Simon Laplace 52 40 James Robert Oppenheimer 54 41 Dr. Harvey Crippen 56 42 Gregor Johann Mendel 58 7 Socrates (469-399 B.C.) Socrates was an ancient Greek philosopher, who profoundly affected Western philosophy through his influence on Plato. Born in Athens. He initiated a question-and-answer method of teaching as a means of achieving self-knowledge. The sacred Oracle in the city of Delphi declared that he was the ‘wisest man in the world’, but Socrates never wrote a book. Socrates studied the Sophists, Ionian philosophers, and the culture of Athens in the time of Pericles. Socrates believed in the superiority of argument over writing. Socrates believed he could serve his country best by devoting himself to teaching and persuading Athenians to engage in self-examination. His logic emphasized rational argument and the quest for general definitions. He believed in a purely objective understanding of justice, love, and virtue. His life and ideas were recorded by his pupil, the great philosopher Plato, and by the historian Xenophon. He was a soldier in the Peloponnesian War, and afterwards returned to Athens. His theories of virtue and justice have survived through the writings of Plat

FAQs

What is the purpose of this book according to the preface?

The book is compiled to provide a challenge for unprivileged science students and to support consultation in colleges and universities, especially for students obtaining low exam scores.

How are the scientists’ entries structured?

Each entry includes a short account of major achievements and early life, followed by the “pathetic moments” in that scientist’s life.

Are the entries listed in alphabetical order?

No. The preface states that entries are not listed in alphabetical order.

Sep 22, 2026

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