What’s common among an electron and a raisin? What experiment changed everything known in Physics about the atomic structure? What was hidden behind the Curie discoveries? What are the quantum jumps Niels Bohr spoke about?
And how is light combining a wave and a particle? In this original theatre show, the Science Reactors team presents in a simple and pleasant way a series of history moments from the birth and establishment of the modern atomic theory in the beginning of the 20th century. The show gives answers in scientific questions like atomic theory. The show was created for Researchers’ Night 2013 and presented for the first time at NCSR Demokritos on 27/9/2013. Since then, it has been successfully presented in many occasions. It is remade with new elements for the Athens Science Festival 2016.

Organisaton: Science ReActors

Participants:

Script: Anna Christodoulou
Direction: Kostas Vrettos
Original music: Stathis Gyftakis, Alex Loukas
Assistant director: Artemis Tsilimidou
Production executive: Eleni Grammatikopoulou
Video: Stella Tsikrika
Montage: Kyriakos Makaronidis
Archive material: CERN Archive

Starring (in order of appearance):
Anna Christodoulou: narrator
Athanasis Koustenis: J. J. Thomson, Erwin Schrödinger
Antonia (Tonia) Eustathiou: Rose Paget
Leuteris Arapakis: Pierre Curie, Hans Geiger
Dimitris Mpouziotis: friend of Pierre, Ernest Marsden
Nikos Papadimitriou: Ernest Rutherford
Chrysanthi Saliagkopoulou: Marie Curie, Niels Bohr
Dimitris Tsimpidas: Albert Einstein

The team consists of young scientists, FameLab finalists (finalists of FameLab, science communication competition) and is gradually been built the last three years aiming to get science out of the lab/ the classroom and bring people closer to science. Artists and stand-up comedians with a science background are also participating in the team.

Team’s actions: Two theatre shows: Science on Stage and CSI Science: the science behind TV crime fiction and Atomic Dialogues: from plum pudding to quarks. A new play is on the process of making on Charles Darwin and the Theory of Evolution.