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SIDNEY PERKOWITZ
Nationality: USAemail: Click here to contact Website: Click here
Literary Agent: Laura Wood/Fine Print Literary Agency
Sidney Perkowitz was born in New York and earned his physics doctorate at the University of PennsylvaniA. After a successful research career at Emory University that produced over 100 scientific papers and books, he turned to presenting science for non-scientists through the popular science books Empire of Light, Universal Foam, Digital People, Hollywood Science, and his latest Slow Light; numerous newspaper and magazine articles; theatrical works; and a screenplay. He has appeared on CNN, NPR, the BBC and other outlets; he frequently lectures about topics such as science in film, and science and art, at venues like NASA, Microsoft, the High Museum of Art and the American Museum of Natural History; and he blogs for the National Academy of Sciences at http://www.scienceandentertainmentexchange.org/blog. He is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
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Albert and Isadora Friedmann's Balloon Glory EnoughAlbert and Isadora
Synopsis:
Albert Einstein and Isadora Duncan meet, talk, and flirt, and compare their views of the universe as seen by a scientist and danced by a dancer - which turn out to be remarkably similar.
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1st Produced:
Graduate Center, CUNY, New York 07 Dec 2002
Organisations:
Isadora Duncan Foundation/CUNY Graduate Center
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Genre:
Science-dance performance piece
Parts:
Male: 1 Female: 1 Other: -
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Synopsis:
The story of Aleksander Friedmann, the Soviet scientist who proved Einstein wrong in the 1920s to became the grandfather of the idea of the expanding universe - and was also a World War I air hero for the Soviet Union, and died as a result of participating in a record setting balloon ascent.
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1st Produced:
Mary Gray Munro Theater, Emory University. Atlanta 23 Sep 2002
Organisations:
Theater Emory
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Genre:
Science play
Parts:
Male: 4 Female: - Other: -
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Top of PageGlory Enough
Synopsis:
Rosalind Franklin was a scientist who contributed to the discovery of the structure of DNA but male scientists had her work played down.
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1st Produced:
Planetarium, Emory University 13 Feb 2005
Organisations:
Theater Emory
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Music:
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Genre:
Science play
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Male: 1 Female: 2 Other: -
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