In a 2012 play, a woman in this profession repeatedly trails off in fragmentary scenes that are revealed to all be part of a single conversation about assisted suicide. The beekeeper Roland marries Marianne, a woman in this profession who develops a brain tumor, in a play by Nick Payne. Retired members of this profession named Hazel and Robin run a dairy farm affected by a nuclear meltdown in Lucy Kirkwood’s The Children. A man in this profession recalls shooting his coworker Casimir with a cap-pistol, and is asked why he did not turn his friend in to the Gestapo. That man’s wife Margarethe says he did nothing wrong when he laments the deaths of thousands in a play where he and a colleague in this profession reconstruct their 1941 meeting. For 10 points, Michael Frayn’s Copenhagen explores the right of what profession to exploit atomic energy? ■END■
ANSWER: physicist [accept specific types of physicists, such as quantum physicist; accept astronomer; prompt on scientist, researcher, professor, teacher, or equivalents of any] (The play by Nick Payne is Constellations.)
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