Lord Bragg of Wigton, Melvyn Bragg, produced a book about science 10 years ago. It is basically the transcipt of a radio series he did on famous scientists. He interviewed a lot of interesting current scientists. It is an excellent study of the way in which science works. It's called "On Giants' Shoulders" (based on a quotation from Sir Isaac Newton) and there is a copy to borrow in Wigton Town Library.I was particularly interested in what he said in the introduction to the book: "Although I greatly enjoyed maths at school, and at one stage wanted to take it in the sixth form, I was never enticed into physics. This is not to blame the teachers, for, soon after World War II and in a small Northern grammar school, teachers, especially it seemed in physics, came and went at some speed." That's our school! Hopefully he'd be enticed into physics if he were here now.
This is a great book and you ought to read it. I'd also recommend looking at the new stained glass windows in the church installed by Melvyn Bragg to spot all the amazing little Wigton details.
