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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
https://www.science-story-telling.eu/en/stories/by-subject-area/biology/sybilla-merian-and-cocoons
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/antoine-laurent-de-lavoisier-and-respiration
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
https://www.science-story-telling.eu/en/stories/by-subject-area/biology/liebig-and-nutrition
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
https://www.science-story-telling.eu/en/stories/by-subject-area/chemistry/maria-sklodowska-curie-discoverer-of-two-radioactive-elements
Maria Skłodowska-Curie: discoverer of two radioactive elements Listen The end of the 19th century is coming. It’s not the successful time for Poland. Due to the partitions, it’s divided between Austri
https://www.science-story-telling.eu/en/stories/by-subject-area/physics/joliot-curie-and-artificial-radioactivity
Joliot-Curie and artificial radioactivity Listen Irene was alone at home as her husband Frederic had to give a lecture early in the morning. Their two children were taken for a walk by the nanny, and
https://www.science-story-telling.eu/en/stories/by-subject-area/chemistry/rutherfords-nuclear-atom
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
https://www.science-story-telling.eu/en/stories/by-subject-area/chemistry/mendeleev-and-the-periodic-system
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/physics/lichtenberg-and-the-electrophorus
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
https://www.science-story-telling.eu/en/stories/by-subject-area/physics/rumford-and-calorics
The mechanical theory of heat and Rumford's contribution Listen Benjamin Thompson, Bavarian Minister of War, went into the workshop to supervise the production of new cannons. As you may notice, Benja