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Ground-breaking cosmologist Beatrice Tinsley was British-born but grew up in New Plymouth. She pursued her science in America and died from melanoma at 40, her work unrecognised. Her theory that the cosmos is not a closed system but open and expanding towards extinction was dismissed in the conservative, male-dominated world of astronomy in the 1960s. Recent findings have proved Tinsley correct. Stuart Hoar's new play depicts her struggle for acceptance in the crucual period of the mid-70s when the offer of an associate professorship at Yale forced her to choose between family and intellectual passion. |
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