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On Giants Shoulders may refer to:

On Giant's Shoulders, a 1976 book by Marjorie Wallace and Michael Robson about the thalidomide victim Terry Wiles
On Giant's Shoulders, a 1979 BBC Emmy Award winning drama based on the 1976 book
On Giants' Shoulders, a 1998 novel by Melvyn Bragg

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On Giants' Shoulders was written in 1998 by Melvyn Bragg. The book was assembled after a series of interviews Bragg had with current scientists about the world's greatest scientists such as Archimedes, Isaac Newton and Einstein. Bragg, who brands himself as a "non-scientist", conducted these interviews on BBC Radio 4 for other non-scientists. The book looks at the notion of being a "genius" and through discussions with 20th-century scientists explores the extent to which the great scientists of history were geniuses.
The book's title is taken from Newton's 1675 quote: "If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants."




Inspiration


In the introduction to On Giants' Shoulders Bragg writes that the world of science was one of mystery and could not be entered nor understood by non-scientists such as himself. Thus he wrote this book, along with scientists, to open a door for other non-scientists to view the world of science as it has been for the past 2,500 years. By doing so, and by explaining the works of the greatest scientists in vernacular understandable by non-scientists, he aims to make the world of science less exclusive and mysterious.




Scientists examined


Archimedes (c. 287 BC–212 BC)
Galileo Galilei (1564–1642)
Sir Isaac Newton (1642–1727)
Antoine Lavoisier (1743–1794)
Michael Faraday (1791–1867)
Charles Darwin (1809–1882)
Jules Henri Poincaré (1854–1912)
Sigmund Freud (1856–1912)
Marie Curie (1867–1934)
Albert Einstein (1879–1955)
Francis Crick (1916–2004)
James Watson (born 1928)




External links


A review from Simon Singh
Radio programme that formed On Giants' Shoulders
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On Giant's Shoulders is a 1979 BBC television film about the early life of thalidomide victim Terry Wiles, with Wiles playing himself. The drama also starred Bryan Pringle and Judi Dench and won an Emmy Award in 1980.
Based on a 1976 book of the same name by Marjorie Wallace and Michael Robson, the 90-minute film was first shown on BBC2 on 29 March 1979 as the 'Play of the Week', and was written by William Humble and Anthony Simmons; the latter was also the director. Terry Wiles had never acted before and, as he was then 17, his voice had to be dubbed by a child actor after filming as it had broken and he had to appear to be much younger, playing himself from age 9 to 12.
The drama tells the story of Terry Wiles, who was born with severe disabilities following his mother's use of the sedative thalidomide, prescribed at that time for morning sickness, during her pregnancy. Abandoned by his mother at birth, he is later adopted from a children's home by the middle-aged and childless couple Hazel (Judi Dench) and Len Wiles (Bryan Pringle). The couple quickly adjust to caring for so severely disabled a child, and Len Wiles develops a series of motorised wheelchairs (or 'Supercars') based on the forklift truck, so that Terry can live as independent a life as possible. Eventually, through the love and care of his adoptive parents Terry adjusts to life in the ordinary world and attends school with able-bodied pupils for the first time.
Judi Dench was nominated for a Best Actress BAFTA for her role as Hazel Wiles.




Cast


Terry Wiles – Himself
Len Wiles – Bryan Pringle
Hazel Wiles – Judi Dench
Sister Page – Hilda Braid
Mrs Proctor – Anna Wing
Teacher at Hospital – Barbara Young
Len Curry – Tim Wylton
Café cashier – Barbara Keogh
Solicitor – Frank Barrie
Hospital Administrator – Tony Church
Marjorie Wallace – Annabel Leventon
Registrar – Elizabeth Morgan
Limb Technician – Anthony Heaton
Miss Hudson – Jean Rimmer




References






External links


On Giant's Shoulders Radio Times entry at the BBC Genome Project
On Giant's Shoulders at IMDb
Website about 'On Giants's Shoulders' the 1979 film of the life of Terry Wiles
BBC 'Play of the Week' entry for 'On Giant's Shoulders' (1979)
'Time Magazine' review of 'On Giant's Shoulders'
Excerpt from Judi Dench's biography dealing with On Giant's Shoulders

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