The poetic dilettante

A legend of great intelligence   Of great gravity and austere countenance   Initial stages were not very vibrant   Yet, he was not at all turbulent.       Born in a jolly musician’s family   Thus, his life was not spent in melancholy   He might have been a school dropout   But that was not his ultimate knockout        Series of experiments struck him a notion   Eureka! The rise of Brownian motion   Through it, the empirical evidence of atomic theory   That made his contemporaries cry tears of fury.       The very accurate Equivalence of matter and Energy,   Made him an immortal, universal effigy.   And how can one forget the Photoelectric effect,   Which had absolutely no defect?       Annus Mirabilis, his breakthrough to fame   I guess you have got this prodigy’s name.   His success as sca...

Sharing a poem I had written for my ephemeral inspiration....                                                    Undoubtedly the greatest scientist of all time   The story of her life is not a mime   Though the prejudices closed all the gates   She had christened her own fate                          Born a girl was the biggest bane, it seemed     But to become a Samaritan was her biggest dream   She proved it all, determination her merit.   Eureka !  Polonium and Radium to her credit.   Never seen a lady so austere, so accurate.   Not once, but twice a  N obel  laureate.   Test-tubes of  radium ,  she always carried in her pockets,   Saved casualties, rend...