Oxygen (play)

Oxygen is a 2001 play by Roald Hoffman who received the chemistry Nobel prize in 1982, and Carl Djerassi, the Stanford biochemist.[1]

The play was performed in several theaters around the world, the last of which was in Porto, Portugal. [2] The play is a dramatisation of events leading to the discovery of oxygen in the eighteenth century.[3]

References
  1. Robert C. Roach, Peter D. Wagner, Peter H. Hackett Hypoxia: Through the Lifecycle 1441989978- Page 16
  2. Hoffmann, Roald. "Schedule". Roald Hoffmann. Retrieved 19 March 2023. OXYGEN A new play, 'Oxygen' was authored by Roald Hoffman, Professor of Chemistry at Cornell who received the chemistry Nobel prize in 1982, and Carl Djerassi, the Stanford biochemist and writer who popularized the pill for ...
  3. Shepherd-Barr, Kirsten (2006). "'Just a Fiction': Staging History and Truth". Science on Stage: From Doctor Faustus to Copenhagen. Princeton University Press. pp. 182–98. ISBN 978-0691155449. JSTOR j.ctv2tvzq2.12. Retrieved 19 March 2023. This group of plays are all part of Djerassi's self-described "science-in-theater," which he has explained as having substantial ... For example, in Oxygen, he and Roald Hoffmann dramatize the events leading to the discovery of oxygen in the...


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