4 historic scientists who are stars in Lauren Gunderson’s plays
A tremendous SF Chronicle round up of 4 historic scientists who are stars in Lauren Gunderson’s plays
“Gunderson's scientist plays feature Henrietta Swan Leavitt, Emilie du Châtelet, Marie Curie and Ada Lovelace.”
Nathan Wolfe is just one of the scientists who gets to step into the spotlight in the plays of Lauren Gunderson. Among that group, Wolfe is unique, both because he’s her husband and because Gunderson’s scientist subjects tend to be women, many of them the trailblazers few of us learned about in school.
Taken together, Gunderson’s plays correct the stereotypical image of a scientist as a bearded, bespectacled dude in a white lab coat. They say, “This is what a scientist looks like — and has looked like all along.”
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