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DJERASSI, Carl was born on October 29, 1923 in Vienna. Son of Doctor Samuel Djerassi and Doctor Alice Friedmann.
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At the age of 68, distinguished Princeton science professor Max Weiss is bribed into taking an early retirement. He takes an ingenious revenge in the form of "Doctor Diana Skordylis"--a pseudonym for a partnership among Weiss and three aging colleagues. Their soaring success is unanticipated and professional jealousy soon threatens Diana Skordylis's life. "A beautifully ingenious, funny, brilliantly inteligent and moving tale of very human scientists. A splendid novel."--Iris Murdoch.
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(This book examines the questions “What can science do for...)
This book examines the questions “What can science do for the theatre? ” and “What can the theatre do for science? ” which raise challenges for both theatre professionals and scientists. Unusually, this book deals with plays first and foremost as reading material - as texts to be read alone or in dramatic readings - rather than emphasizing performances on the stage. Concrete examples are given to demonstrate the potential pedagogic value of using the dialogic style and plot structure of plays in science, with a special focus on chemistry. Very few books have dealt with the subject of science-in-theatre and virtually none with chemistry-in-theatre. Texts of the author's two recent plays, Insufficiency and Phallacy, are included in their entirety to offer concrete examples of plays dealing with actual (rather than invented) chemistry. Insufficiency represents an example from the field of beer and champagne bubbles, where the topics of academic tenure and fashion in chemistry are analyzed, whereas in Phallacy, a case history of the similarities and differences between science and art is presented for debate.
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This book features a CD of rarely performed music, including a specially commissioned rap by Erik Weiner of Walter Benjamin's "Thesis on the Philosophy of History." Theodor W. Adorno was the prototypical German Jewish non-Jew, Walter Benjamin vacillated between German Jew and Jewish German, Gershom Scholem was a committed Zionist, and Arnold Schönberg converted to Protestantism for professional reasons but later returned to Judaism. Carl Djerassi, himself a refugee from Hitler's Austria, dramatizes a dialogue between these four men in which they discuss fraternity, religious identity, and legacy as well as reveal aspects of their lives-notably their relations with their wives-that many have ignored, underemphasized, or misrepresented. The desire for canonization and the process by which it is obtained are the underlying themes of this dialogue, with emphasis on Paul Klee's Angelus Novus (1920), a canonized work that resonated deeply with Benjamin, Adorno, and Scholem (and for which Djerassi and Gabrielle Seethaler present a revisionist and richly illustrated interpretation). Basing his dialogue on extensive archival research and interviews, Djerassi concludes with a daring speculation on the putative contents of Benjamin's famous briefcase, which disappeared upon his suicide.
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DJERASSI, Carl was born on October 29, 1923 in Vienna. Son of Doctor Samuel Djerassi and Doctor Alice Friedmann.
AB summa cum laude, Kenyon College, 1942. Doctor of Science (honorary), Kenyon College, 1959. Doctor of Philosophy, University Wisconsin, 1945.
Doctor of Science (honorary), University Wisconsin, 1995. Doctor of Science (honorary), National University Mexico, 1953. Doctor of Science (honorary), Federal University, Rio de Janeiro, 1969.
Doctor of Science (honorary), Worcester Polytechnic Institute, 1972. Doctor of Science (honorary), Wayne State University, 1974. Doctor of Science (honorary), Columbia University, 1975.
Doctor of Science (honorary), Uppsala University, 1977. Doctor of Science (honorary), Coe College, 1978. Doctor of Science (honorary), University Geneva, 1978.
Doctor of Science (honorary), University Ghent, 1985. Doctor of Science (honorary), University Manitoba, 1985. Doctor of Science (honorary), Adelphi University, 1993.
Doctor of Science (honorary), University South Carolina, 1995. Doctor of Science (honorary), Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, 1995. Doctor of Science (honorary), University Maryland.- Baltimore County, 1997.
Doctor of Science (honorary), Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 1998. Doctor of Science (honorary), University Aberdeen, 2000. Doctor of Science (honorary), Polytechnic University, 2001.
Doctor of Science (honorary), Cambridge University, 2005. Doctor of Science (honorary), Technology University Dortmund, 2009.
Director of Research, Syntex, S.A., Mexico City 1949-1951, Research Vice-President 1957-1960, President Syntex Research 1968-1972. Association Professor, of Chemistry, Wayne State University, Detroit 1952-1954, Professor 1954-1959, Stanford University since 1959. President, of the Board Zoecon Corporation (renamed Sandoz Crop Protection Corporation) 1968-1983, Chairman 1968-1988.
Director Cetus Corporation since 1972, Monoclonal Antibodies Inc. since 1988, Vitaphore Corporation since 1987. President Djerassi Foundation Resident Artists Program. Royal Chemical Society Centenary Lecturer 1964.
Royal Sw edish Academy, of Engineering Sciences thirteenth Chemical Lecturer 1969. Swedish Pharmaceutical Society Scheele Lecturer 1972. Chairman 1972-1976.
(This book examines the questions “What can science do for...)
( This book features a CD of rarely performed music, incl...)
(At the age of 68, distinguished Princeton science profess...)
Author: The Futurist and Other Stories, 1988. Author: (novels) Cantor's Dilemma, 1989, The Bourbaki Gambit, 1994, Marx Deceased, 1996, Menachem's Seed, 1997, November, 1998. Author: (poetry) The Clock Runs Backward, 1991.
Author: (plays) An Immaculate Misconception, 1998, British Broadcasting Corporation World Service Play of Week, 2000, ICSI--a pedagogic wordplay for 2 voices, 2002, Calculus, 2003, (musical version) Music Werner Schulze, 2005, Ego, 2003, Three on a Couch, 2004, Taboos, 2006, Phallacy, 2007, Four Jews on Parnassus, 2008. Author: (with Roald Hoffmann) Oxygen, 2001, British Broadcasting Corporation World Svc. Play of Week, 2001.
Author: (with Pierre Laszlo) November--a pedagogic wordplay for 3 voices, 2003. Author: (autobiography) The Pill, Pygmy Chimps and Degas' Horse, 1992. Author: (memoir) This Man's Pill, 2001.
Author: (with D. Pinner) Newton's Darkness: Two Dramatic Views, 2004. Author: 9 other books. Member editorial board Journal Organic Chemistry, 1955-1959, Tetrahedron, 1958-1992, Steroids, 1963—2001, Proceedings National Academy of Sciences, 1964-1970, Journal American Chemical Society, 1966-1975, Organic Mass Spectrometry, 1968-1991, contributor numerous articles to professional journals, poems, memoirs and short stories to literature publications.
Fellow: Royal Society London (foreign member). Member: National Academy of Sciences (Industrial Application of Science award 1990), Academy Europeae, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (foreign member), Mexico Academy of Sciences, Brazilian Academy of Sciences, Royal Swedish Academy Engineering (foreign member), Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences (foreign member), American Academy Pharmaceutical Sciences (honorary), German Academy Leopoldina, American Academy Arts and Sciences, Royal Society Chemistry (honorary fellow, Centenary lecturer 1964), American Chemical Society (award pure chemistry 1958, Baekeland medal 1959, Fritzsche award 1960, award for creative invention 1973, award in chemistry of contemporary technical problems 1983, Esselen award 1989, Priestley medal 1992, Gibbs medal 1997), National Academy of Sciences Institute Medicine, Sigma Xi (Proctor prize for science achievement 1998), Phi Beta Kappa, Phi Lambda Upsilon (honorary).
Married Virginia Jeremiah (divorced 1950). Married Norma Lundholm (divorced 1976). Children: Dale, Pamela(deceased).
Married Diane W. Middlebrook, 1985 (deceased 2007).