![]() ![]() Prof McCarthy retired in 1986, the year I left the lab, and although I was his last graduate student, he continued with his research for another 10 years after his "retirement'. At the time I was there, Prof McCarthy was Head of Department, a position that he had assumed from Prof. The first 2 of these giants, Kevin McCarthy and Tony Hart were my mentors when I was a graduate student in Liverpool England. In any event, any accomplishments of the Leib Laboratory owe a great deal to 3 giants, all now sadly passed on. If I have seen a little further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants." You have added much several ways, and especially in taking the colours of thin plates into philosophical consideration. Isaac Newton also wrote in a letter to his rival Robert Hooke: We see more, and things that are more distant, than they did, not because our sight is superior or because we are taller than they, but because they raise us up, and by their great stature add to ours." "We are like dwarfs sitting on the shoulders of giants. The 12th century theologian and author John of Salisbury used a version of the phrase: That is, we use the understanding gained by major thinkers who have gone before us in order to make intellectual progress. All of us in science, to a greater or lesser extent, stand on the shoulders of giants. ![]()
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