But he's got more than physics working against him in this production, directed by JoAnne Akalaitis, a founder of the experimental theater troupe Mabou Mines and the former artistic director of the Public Theater.
After a brief stint in Austin, Tex., where he was a founder of the experimental theater company Physical Plant, he came to New York to direct and eventually took the reins of tiny Soho Rep, as artistic director.
The three bodies of work have been linked at P.S. 1 by Klaus Biesenbach, the German-born senior curator there, who is a founder of Kunst-Werke Berlin, an experimental exhibition space.
After completing a dissertation on feeling for Wilhelm Wundt, the founder of experimental psychology, at the University of Leipzig (1887), Külpe spent eight years at the Leipzig laboratory.
In Müller's laboratory Helmholtz met a group of young men, among whom were Emil Heinrich Du Bois-Reymond, the founder of experimental neurophysiology, and Ernst Wilhelm von Brücke, who later became an expert on the operations of the human eye.
And Gustav Theodor Fechner, the founder of experimental psychology and an ardent defender of panpsychism, contended that even trees are sentient and conscious.
A disciple of the German psychologist Wilhelm Wundt, the founder of experimental psychology, Titchener gave Wundt's theory on the scope and method of psychology a precise, systematic expression.
His decision to adopt psychology as his life's work was inspired by a partial reading of Physiological Psychology (1873 74), by Wilhelm Wundt, generally considered the founder of experimental psychology.
Roux, noted for his pioneering studies on frog eggs (beginning in 1885), became the founder of experimental embryology.
The authors point all the way back to Galen, the early Greek physician and founder of experimental physiology, who, they wrote, spoke of the "smelly skin, defective brains and weak intelligence" of blacks, a perception that the authors say, may have influenced medical teachings in the Byzantine, Arab and medieval Christian worlds.
