WATCH THE LIFE STORIES OF THE WORLD'S GREATEST THINKERS, CREATORS AND
ACHIEVERS COMPLETELY FREE ON PEOPLE'S ARCHIVE
Peoples Archive presents the video life stories of some of the worlds
greatest thinkers, creators and achievers of our time. These are
extraordinary people who have shaped and changed the world that we live
in, and we are proud to preserve their life stories for present and
future generations.
Each of the great achievers presented on the Peoples Archive website (www.peoplesarchive.com) has been given an unlimited amount of time to
tell his or her life story in detail. Talking in depth about their life
and work and their collaborations and struggles, each contributor is
recognized as playing a key role in their field of work.
Peoples Archive is delighted to announce today that access to the
entire Archive is now completely free. Following it's launch in May
2004, Peoples Archive has been growing steadily and currently holds
more than 200 hours of video divided into 4740 segments, and is grouped
into seven sections: Arts, Film, Literature, Masters, Medicine,
Politics and Science.
Each life story is accompanied by word accurate transcripts, complete
bibliographies or filmographies, external links to other relevant
websites, internal links to other stories within the Archive relating
to similar themes, and illustrations where necessary. In addition,
these life stories are also available for purchase on DVD-ROM.
Two of the latest additions to Peoples Archive are the talented
physician Howard Hiatt, and the renowned radio astronomer, Sir Bernard
Lovell. Dr Hiatt reflects on his life and work, including his work on
Messenger RNA at the Pasteur Institute, as well as the time he spent as
the Dean of the Harvard Medical School, where he was instrumental in
improving its work in the quantitative analytic sciences. Sir
Bernard talks at length about developing radar systems in aircraft for
the TRE, and constructing the then-largest steerable radio telescope in
the world 50 years ago – the Lovell Telescope at Jodrell Bank
Observatory.
Among the many other life stories presented on the Archive are those of
22 Scientists including the biologist Francis Crick, and the physicist,
Freeman Dyson. The Film section currently has 7 filmmakers and
cinematographers, including the filmmaker Andrzej Wajda and the
documentary maker, Albert Maysles. Other contributors present on the
site include the illustrator Quentin Blake, the computer scientist
Donald Knuth, the sculptor Sir Anthony Caro, the theatre director Sir
Peter Hall, and the watchmaker George Daniels.
Coming soon to the Archive are 2007 Nobel Prize Winner Doris Lessing,
portuguese artist Paula Rego, and the architect Richard Meier, whose
life story launches the new Architecture section.
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