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Dalton and the atoms Listen John Dalton was a happy man. He had always wanted to teach, although in the 18th century, this was somewhat unusual for someone from his social status. He was born as the s
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Rutherford’s Nuclear Atom Listen Ernest Rutherford was born in New Zealand into a poor farming family in 1871. When the young "Ern," as his family called him, received his first science book at the ag
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Mendeleev and the Periodic System Listen It was July 12, 1849 in Tobolsk, Siberia. Excitedly, the fifteen-year-old Dmitri Mendeleev clutched his high-school graduation certificate. As he studied the d
https://www.science-story-telling.eu/en/stories/by-subject-area/biology/eijkman-and-beri-beri
Eijkman and Beri-Beri Listen It was a lazy summer afternoon in 1886 in Berlin, Germany at the popular Café Bauer. In one corner, a figure sporting a bushy moustache was hunched over his afternoon coff
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Sybilla Merian and Cocoons Listen Sibylla woke – the room was still pitch black in the early morning but she was very excited and just couldn’t sleep any longer. She listened and heard her family memb
https://www.science-story-telling.eu/en/stories/by-subject-area/biology/rumford-and-nutrition
Rumford and nutrition Listen It was a beautiful spring day on Friday, on the fifth of June, in Munich, Germany in the year 1784. A smart-looking horse and carriage came to a stop on the fashionable Sc
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Antoine Laurent de Lavoisier and respiration Listen Antoine Laurent de Lavoisier, who is considered to be the father of modern chemistry and one of the first to execute and exploit quantitative resear
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Liebig and nutrition Listen Sunlight was sipping through the tall window, falling onto the book held by a man with an oval face. White hair surrounded his friendly face, focused on the reading. His ey
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Lichtenberg and the electrophorus Listen Lichtenberg, who lived in the 18th century, was an outstanding naturalist, art critic, satirist, aphorist, and one of the creators of the German experimental p
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production of new cannons. As you may notice, Benjamin Thompson is not really a common Bavarian name, and act ually, Thompson was not a Bavarian citizen but he was born in the British colonies in North America [...] to discuss took place by the end of the 18th century. During the American Revolution, Thompson had acted as a spy for the British, consequently he had to leave when things turned out to end bad for them