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Photo by David Kilper
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The awesome 110 players
Students in Clifford M. Will's Physics 110, "Awesome Ideas in Physics," a course for non-science majors, recently put on a staged reading of Copenhagen in Crow Hall, Room 201. The Tony Award-winning drama examines a 1941 meeting between physicists Werner Heisenberg (right, played by Alessandra Larson) and Niels Bohr (center, played by Petrice Gaskin) -- old friends and colleagues who found themselves on opposite sides in World War II. Heisenberg, a leader of the German atomic bomb project, had traveled to see Bohr, his former mentor and fellow atomic pioneer, at Bohr's home in Nazi-occupied Denmark. Though the exact nature of their conversation remains unclear, by all accounts it included discussion of the atomic bomb project. Because Bohr and Heisenberg were central figures in the development of quantum physics, Will, Ph.D., professor of physics in Arts & Sciences, thought the Copenhagen reading would provide his students with an interesting introduction to the study of quantum mechanics. Margaret Bauer (left) portrays Bohr's wife, Margrethe.
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