Bücher von Carl (Stanford Univ Djerassi

Examines the questions: What can science do for the theatre? And what can the theatre do for science? which raise challenges for both theatre professionals and scientists. This book includes texts of the author's two plays, "Insufficiency" and "Phallacy", to offer concrete examples of plays dealing with actual (rather than invented) chemistry.

These are the reflections of a nonagenarian polymath describing the shift from a fifty-year-long career as a world-famous chemist to a subsequent twenty-five-year immersion in "science-in-fiction" and "science-in-theater," which is virtually unique among contemporary scientists.