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• catalog abstract ""What is discovery? Why is it important to be first? These questions trouble the characters in 'Oxygen'. The action alternates between 1777 and 2001, the Centenary of the Nobel Prize, when the Nobel Foundation decides to inaugurate a 'retro-Nobel' award for discoveries that preceded the establishment of the Prize in 1901. The Foundation thinks this will be easy. In the good old days, wasn't science done for science's sake? Wasn't discovery simple, pure, and unalloyed by controversy, priority, claims, and hype? The Nobel Committee decides to reward the discovery of Oxygen, since that launched the Chemical Revolution. Lavoisier is a natural choice. But what about Scheele? What about Priestley? Didn't they first discover oxygen? The play brings the candidates and their wives to 1777 Stockholm at the invitation of King Gustav III. Through the scientists' wives, in a sauna and elsewhere, we learn of their lives and those of their husbands. Meanwhile in 2001, the Nobel Committee argues about the conflicting claims of the three men. The ethical issues around priority and discovery at the heart of this play are as timely today as they were in 1777. As are the ironies of revolutions: Lavoisier, the chemical revolutionary, is a political conservative, who loses his life in the Jacobin terror. Priestley, the political radical, is a chemical conservative. And Scheele just wants to run his pharmacy. He, the first man on earth to make oxygen, got least credit for it. Will that situation be repaired 230 years after his discovery?"--Inside front flap.".
• catalog alternative "Oxygen : a play in 2 acts".
• catalog contributor b12146178.
• catalog contributor b12146179.
• catalog coverage "Stockholm (Sweden) Fiction.".
• catalog created "c2001.".
• catalog date "2001".
• catalog date "c2001.".
• catalog dateCopyrighted "c2001.".
• catalog description ""What is discovery? Why is it important to be first? These questions trouble the characters in 'Oxygen'. The action alternates between 1777 and 2001, the Centenary of the Nobel Prize, when the Nobel Foundation decides to inaugurate a 'retro-Nobel' award for discoveries that preceded the establishment of the Prize in 1901. The Foundation thinks this will be easy. In the good old days, wasn't science done for science's sake? Wasn't discovery simple, pure, and unalloyed by controversy, priority, claims, and hype? The Nobel Committee decides to reward the discovery of Oxygen, since that launched the Chemical Revolution. Lavoisier is a natural choice. But what about Scheele? What about Priestley? Didn't they first discover oxygen? The play brings the candidates and their wives to 1777 Stockholm at the invitation of King Gustav III. Through the scientists' wives, in a sauna and elsewhere, we learn of their lives and those of their husbands. Meanwhile in 2001, the Nobel Committee argues about the conflicting claims of the three men. The ethical issues around priority and discovery at the heart of this play are as timely today as they were in 1777. As are the ironies of revolutions: Lavoisier, the chemical revolutionary, is a political conservative, who loses his life in the Jacobin terror. Priestley, the political radical, is a chemical conservative. And Scheele just wants to run his pharmacy. He, the first man on earth to make oxygen, got least credit for it. Will that situation be repaired 230 years after his discovery?"--Inside front flap.".
• catalog description "By the same Authors. -- Foreword. -- Production History. -- Cast of Characters. -- Scene 1. -- Intermezzo 1. -- Scene 2. -- Intermezzo 2. -- Scene 3. -- Scene 4. -- Intermezzo 3. -- Scene 5. -- Scene 6. -- Scene 7. -- Scene 8. -- Scene 9. -- Intermezzo 4. -- Scene 10. -- Intermezzo 5. -- Scene 11. -- Scene 12. -- Acknowledgments.".
• catalog extent "vii, 119 p. :".
• catalog hasFormat "Oxygen.".
• catalog identifier "3527304134".
• catalog isFormatOf "Oxygen.".
• catalog issued "2001".
• catalog issued "c2001.".
• catalog language "eng".
• catalog publisher "Weinheim ; New York : Wiley-VCH,".
• catalog relation "Oxygen.".
• catalog spatial "Stockholm (Sweden) Fiction.".
• catalog subject "Chemistry History 18th century Drama.".
• catalog subject "Chemistry History Drama.".
• catalog subject "Chemistry history Fictional Works.".
• catalog subject "Chemists Biography 18th century Drama.".
• catalog subject "Chemists Drama.".
• catalog subject "Discoveries in science Drama.".
• catalog subject "Discoveries in science History 18th century Drama.".
• catalog subject "Drama.".
• catalog subject "Lavoisier, Antoine Laurent, 1743-1794 Drama.".
• catalog subject "Lavoisier, Antoine Laurent, 1743-1794 Fictional Works.".
• catalog subject "Medicine in Literature.".
• catalog subject "Nobel Prize Fictional Works.".
• catalog subject "Nobel Prizes Drama.".
• catalog subject "Oxygen Drama.".
• catalog subject "Oxygen history Fictional Works.".
• catalog subject "PS3554.J47 O99 2001".
• catalog subject "Priestley, Joseph, 1733-1804 Drama.".
• catalog subject "Priestley, Joseph, 1733-1804 Fictional Works.".
• catalog subject "Research history Fictional Works.".
• catalog subject "Scheele, Carl Wilhelm, 1742-1786 Drama.".
• catalog subject "Scheele, Carl Wilhelm, 1742-1786 Fictional Works.".
• catalog subject "WZ 350 D624 2001".
• catalog tableOfContents "By the same Authors. -- Foreword. -- Production History. -- Cast of Characters. -- Scene 1. -- Intermezzo 1. -- Scene 2. -- Intermezzo 2. -- Scene 3. -- Scene 4. -- Intermezzo 3. -- Scene 5. -- Scene 6. -- Scene 7. -- Scene 8. -- Scene 9. -- Intermezzo 4. -- Scene 10. -- Intermezzo 5. -- Scene 11. -- Scene 12. -- Acknowledgments.".
• catalog title "Oxygen : a play in 2 acts".
• catalog title "Oxygen : a play in two acts / by Carl Djerassi and Roald Hoffmann.".
• catalog type "Drama. fast".
• catalog type "Fiction. fast".
• catalog type "History. fast".
• catalog type "text".