Engineering a Masterful Performance

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Channel: Northwestern University · 2008 · Education

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Northwestern engineering professor Matthew Grayson discusses his role in bringing the Tony Award-winning play Copenhagen to the University. The play is set during World War II, when the friendship of two Nobel Prize-winning physicists is tested by the prospect of providing Nazi Germany with the atomic bomb. The production is part of a new outreach program at Northwestern, ETOPiA: Engineering Transdisciplinary Outreach Project in the Arts.

Interview, production and editing by Marcelino Benito (J10) ____

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