American Chemical Society - Local Section for the Dallas and Fort Worth Area



DFW ACS Meeting – February 2010


THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 2010
STAGE WEST – 821 W. VICKERY, FORT WORTH 76104

 

"COPENHAGEN"
Michael Frayn with an Introduction by Dr. Nelson E. Claytor
of Fresnel Technologies, Inc.

 

 

"Copenhagen" presents what might have been said in conversations among Nobel Laureates Werner Heisenberg and Niels Bohr, and Bohr's spouse, Margrethe Bohr. Heisenberg, an important theoretical physicist and head of Germany's quest for nuclear weaponry, requested – and had- a meeting with Bohr, his colleague and friend. Although the actual subject of their discussion remains unknown, it is generally accepted that their meeting in Copenhagen in September 1941 (mere months before the US entry into WWII) was pivotal to Germany's failure to develop the atomic bomb. "Copenhagen", speculates on the interplay of the characters during the initial meeting, a subsequent meeting in 1947, and a conversation that, scintillatingly, occurs after their deaths.