The history of science is studded with female geniuses snubbed by sexism. There's biophysicist Rosalind Franklin, geneticist Nettie Stevens, chemist Alice Ball" And several such brilliant women's brains have appeared on stage, notably in Playwright Lauren Gunderson's Silent Sky (about astronomer Henrietta Swan Leavitt), Emilie (about mathematician-philosopher Emilie Du Châtelet), and Ada and the Machine […] The …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:08PM on March 8, 2020