On Giant's Shoulders

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The Texts: On Giant's Shoulders

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Arthur Koestler, The Sleepwalkers

Bertold Brecht, Galileo

Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman, Mythbusters

John Banville, Docter Copernicus

John Banville, Kepler

Peter Doherty, A Beginner's Guide to Winning the Nobel Prize

Suggested topics to research related to this text:

Australian:
Dr Fiona Wood	treatment of burns victims
Professor Tim Flannery	writer, explorer, environmentalist
David Attenborough	environmentalist, writer, documentary maker
Professor Ian Frazer	cancer research
Ian Kiernan	environmentalist, Clean Up Australia founder
Dr Fred Hollows	blindness prevention in third world communities
Kay Cottee	yachtswoman; around the world sailor
International:
Francis Crick and J D Watson	DNA
Hans Wilhelm Geiger	geiger counter
Ernest Rutherford	nuclear atom
Ralph Alpher et al	Big Bang Theory
Christiaan Barnard	heart transplants
Alfred Binet	intelligence testing
Louis Pasteur	pasteurization of milk
H W Florey	penicillin
Stephan Hawking	A Brief History of Time
Edwin Hubble	the Hubble telescope
Robert Oppenheimer	Atomic bomb
Linus Pauling	molecular structure
Jonas Salk	polio vaccination
Bill Gates	Microsoft founder
Steve Jobs	Apple computers