The Art of Science Reading Series
Elbash Hall - CUNY

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Intelligence Slaves
Based on a true story. A concentration camp prisoner is kept
alive by the Nazis because he has invented the world's first hand-held
four function calculator. What will happen when he completes
 the invention and he becomes dispensable?  Written by Kenneth Lin


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Uranium + Peaches
by Peter Cook and William Lanouette

The scientist behind the bomb wants to stop it...
The politician behind the President wants to drop it...

In the dramatic and fateful confrontation between Einstein's protégé, Leo Szilard,
and Truman's mentor, Jimmy Byrnes, science battles politics
 in the timeless struggle aginst the corruption of human ingenuity. 




world_science_festival.jpgOxygen By Carl Djerassi and Roald Hoffmann

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Fission
By Jacques and Olivier Treiner
Translated by Ed and Rebecca Schonberg

French father-son team Jacques and Olivier Treiner premiered a new translation
 of their prize-winning play Fission at the Art of Science Reading Series.
Staged in an airy hall of the CUNY Graduate Center, the play depicts the race
 to create an atomic bomb on both sides of the Atlantic. Fission is as much a
 celebration of scientific imagination as it is an examination of the ethical issues of one of
the most significant inventions of the twentieth century.

Moving Bodies
A staged reading of the play dramatizing the life of Nobel Prize-winning Physicist Richard Feynman
Pierre and Marie
A play about the life and times of the Curies. Based on the play, Les Palmes de M.
Schutz by Jean-Noël Fenwick and adapted by Ron Clark.

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Thread of Life
Scenes from this play about Rosalind Franklin and the role she played in the
discovery of the structure of DNA performed as part of a program entitled
"Science As Performance." Written by Rita Nachtmann