{"product_id":"nine-luminaries-of-science-joseph-mani-9781646789474","title":"Nine Luminaries of Science: Interesting and Inspiring Facts about the Personal Lives of These Great Men and Woman","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn 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\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLittle known facts: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e- Copernicus had a doctorate in Church Law and was a senior official of the Catholic Church till his death\u003cbr\u003e - Einstein invented a new type of refrigerator; Curie could not afford to buy even 1 gram of the element she discovered\u003cbr\u003e - Curie and Einstein thought of suicide; Hawking attempted suicide\u003cbr\u003e - 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.\u003cbr\u003e - Copernicus, Galileo, Newton and Bose were deeply religious; Einstein and Raman were pantheists; Curie was an agnostic; Feynman and Hawking were atheists\u003cbr\u003e - Curie's died of her own discovery; her notebooks are still radioactive and will remain so for the next 1500 years\u003cbr\u003e - 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.\u003cbr\u003e - Curie's and Hawking's parents were highly educated; Newton's parents were illiterate\u003cbr\u003e - E = mc2 is not Einstein's full equation; and its negative counterpart led to the idea of antimatter\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Joseph Mani\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1646789474\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781646789474\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Notion Press Media Pvt Ltd\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/21\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 190\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.47lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.44d","brand":"Joseph Mani","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48436895351039,"sku":"9781646789474","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_51ffc477-8237-40e2-b2d0-4e0bd64a0024.jpg?v=1777158493","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/nine-luminaries-of-science-joseph-mani-9781646789474","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}