'Remembering Miss Meitner': An attempt to forge history into drama

Interdisciplinary Science Reviews

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 202-210

  Friedman, Robert Marc ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

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EID: 0042419894     PISSN: 03080188     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1179/030801802225002971     Document Type: Article

References (6)

1. Proceedings of these two highly successful symposia, 'Copenhagen and beyond: the interactions between drama, science, and history' (19 November 1999) and 'Copenhagen and beyond: drama meets history of science' (22-23 September 2001), which brought together playwrights, historians, directors, actors, and scientists, are available on the Niels Bohr Archive's website at www. nbi.dk/NBA/files/sem/copintro.html and www.nbi.dk/ NBA/files/sem/22sep2001.html. Some of my remarks have also been published as a comment on 'Dangers of dramatizing science' in Physics World, 2002, 15, (2), 16-17.
2. Proceedings of these two highly successful symposia, 'Copenhagen and beyond: the interactions between drama, science, and history' (19 November 1999) and 'Copenhagen and beyond: drama meets history of science' (22-23 September 2001), which brought together playwrights, historians, directors, actors, and scientists, are available on the Niels Bohr Archive's website at www. nbi.dk/NBA/files/sem/copintro.html and www.nbi.dk/ NBA/files/sem/22sep2001.html. Some of my remarks have also been published as a comment on 'Dangers of dramatizing science' in Physics World, 2002, 15, (2), 16-17.
3. See for example HERBERT LINDENBERGER: 'Historical drama: the relation of literature and reality'; 1975, Chicago, IL/London, University of Chicago Press, and Eric Bentley's introduction ('The science fiction of Bertolt Brecht') to BERTOLT BRECHT: 'Galileo'; 1966, New York, NY, Grove Press.
4. See for example HERBERT LINDENBERGER: 'Historical drama: the relation of literature and reality'; 1975, Chicago, IL/London, University of Chicago Press, and Eric Bentley's introduction ('The science fiction of Bertolt Brecht') to BERTOLT BRECHT: 'Galileo'; 1966, New York, NY, Grove Press.
5. ROBERT MARC FRIEDMAN: 'The politics of excellence: behind the Nobel prize in science'; 2001, New York, NY, W. H. Freeman/Henry Holt.
6. RUTH LEWIN SIME: 'Lise Meitner. A life in physics'; 1996, Berkeley, CA, University of California Press.