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SIDNEY PERKOWITZ |
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Nationality: USA Email: Click here to contact Website: Click here to visit |
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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.
Plays by Sidney Perkowitz
Albert and Isadora | ||
| 1st Produced: | Graduate Center, CUNY, New York | 07 Dec 2002 | ||||
Company: | Isadora Duncan Foundation/CUNY Graduate Center | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #130899 | |||
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Genre: | Science-dance performance piece | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 | ||
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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. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Friedmann's Balloon | ||
| 1st Produced: | Mary Gray Munro Theater, Emory University. Atlanta | 23 Sep 2002 | ||||
Company: | Theater Emory | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #130898 | |||
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Genre: | Science play | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | - | ||
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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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Glory Enough | ||
| 1st Produced: | Planetarium, Emory University | 13 Feb 2005 | ||||
Company: | Theater Emory | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #79841 | |||
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Genre: | Science play | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 2 | ||
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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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