Science hits the stage with Stanford chemist and playwright Carl Djerassi.
He’s just finished reading the “superb” Portrait of Isaac Newton by
Frank Manuel (Harvard, 1968), Philosophers at War by Rupert Hall
(Cambridge, 1980) and Rivals by Michael White (Secker & Warburg,
2001), all as background for the play he’s writing about Newton and Leibniz, the
third part of his “science-in-theatre” trilogy.
He says his last “belletristic” reading is Thinks by David Lodge
(Secker & Warburg, 2001), one of his favourite novelists. This is the first
book in which Lodge “trespasses on science and technology and in my opinion he
does it…
