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Blaise Pascal's mother had died when he was only three years old. His father had then resolved to be father, mother and tutor to his son. The boy had a love of mathematics, and hence the father had decided to make this subject the "crown of his educational programme". Pascal was to be introduced to mathematics at age sixteen, and hence all books on mathematics had been banned from the house. However, it is impossible to hold back a person as talented as Blaise Pascal. He had discovered much of Euclid's Geometery by himself by age 12.

In a small town near Bologna in Italy, a young man sat reading Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet". He was deeply touched by the story as it reflected his own life. His family had been for an age feuding with the Sbaragalias, a neighbouring family. After a lifetime of work in the field of medicine, for which he is now immortalised forever, when he returned home, he found his villa ransacked, his instruments burnt, and his life's work destroyed by those very same rivals whose touch he had not been able to escape even in far off Messina. He died at last in the Vatican, the personal physician of Pope Innocent XII, a man persecuted in life, but at last able to find peace in death.

Who is this man, who with his microscope forever changed the field of biology with his keen observations?

So no ideas? I will wait one more day then give the answer

I'm pretty sure it's Marcello Malpighi. He's the one that invented to microscope, and discovered capillaries. I think he discounted black bile as a normal human fluid as well.

Very good! You are so wise!

Malpighi's name lives on even today. He has been immortalized in the Malpighian layer of the skin, the Malpighian corpuscles of the kidney and the spleen, and also, and most importantly in the annals of science, as a man who continued to fight on regardless of the odds.

It was 1780. A leading French scientist rejected an application for membership to the French Academie des Sciences by Jean Paul Marat. Little did he know that this would prove his doom.

"The Republic does not need scientists", said the Chief Justice of the French Revolution. Marat had denounced that very same scientist as a "champion of tyrants and a pupil of scoundrels." He was arrested, charges were trumped up against him and he was executed by guillotine in 1794. So ended an era of scientific exploration.

Who was this man?

Antoine Lavoisier – “the father of modern chemistry”

That is correct!

Lagrange, the great French mathematician once said of Lavoisier's tragic death: "It took but a moment to cut off his head, but it will take a century to produce another like it." This is Lavoisier's story, a tale of what might have been if reason had triumphed over emotion.

The slender young lady with light curly hair and bright eyes, fidgeted restlessly in the fourth-class section of the train, as around her rough labourers and peasant women jostled and pushed. For five years, Marja Sklodowska had struggled and waited to make her way from Warsaw to Paris. Nothing could discourage her now. She sat back, and dreamed of Paris. Little did she know that due to her stay in Paris, she would become the most famous scientist in the field of radioactivity ever.

By what name is Marja Sklodowska better known?

A female who is "the most famous scientist in the field of radioactivity ever."


That can't be anyone but "Madam Curie"