"Copenhagen," a Tony Award-winning play about ethical, moral and personal dilemmas surrounding the creation of the first nuclear bomb, will provide the backdrop for a two-part symposium presented April 13-14 by the University of Colorado at Boulder and The Denver Center for the Performing Arts.
Nobel Prize-winning CU-Boulder physics Professor Carl Wieman, physics Professor Allan Franklin, and history professor and former Los Alamos resident Lee Chambers will join regional theater pioneer Zelda Fichandler, theater critic Sylvie Drake, scientist and author Lawrence Cranberg and production director Anthony Powell as panelists. The April 13 session will be at the Donald R. Seawell Grand Ballroom at Speer and Arapahoe in downtown Denver from 2 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. On April 14, the panel will meet at the Eaton Humanities Building on the CU-Boulder campus from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m.
Admission is free but reservations are required and may be made by calling (303) 492-1423 or e-mailing paula.anderson@colorado.edu. Both sessions will be followed by receptions.
The symposium is part of the Copenhagen Project, run by CU-Boulder's Center for Humanities and the Arts in cooperation with the Denver Center for the Performing Arts and the Denver Center Theatre Company. The project also includes an educational outreach partnership with Boulder's Base Line Middle School. As part of the outreach program, students from Base Line will travel to Denver to view a special performance of "Copenhagen," thanks in part to the CU-Boulder Office of Community Affairs.
Winner of the 2000 Tony Award for Best Play, Michael Frayn's "Copenhagen" depicts what might have happened during a mysterious 1941 meeting in occupied Denmark between Werner Heisenberg, head of Nazi Germany's nuclear research, and his half-Jewish mentor and old friend Niels Bohr. Historians have debated what the two Nobel laureate physicists discussed in their awkward encounter at the height of the race to build the world's first nuclear bomb, but few facts are known.
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