The Sam Noble Museum’s ongoing Sunday Science Film Series taking place Sunday afternoons at 2 p.m. continues this Sunday, Feb. 7, with a slight change in schedule. Instead of the originally scheduled 1935 film “The Story of Louis Pasteur,” the museum will screen the 2001 film “Semmelweis.”
The film tells the tragic true story of Ignaz Semmelweis, the Hungarian doctor who discovered a method for preventing the lethal disease of childbed fever. In the Vienna General Hospital, 1849; years before Pasteur would develop his germ theory, one in three new mothers die within days of giving birth. Director Klein deems it 'the price God has put on the great gift of bearing a child.' But Semmelweis, assistant to the second ward, cannot believe that it is so. Fraught with nightmares, he cannot rest until he discovers the cause and cure of the fever. What he finds is a new way of thinking.
The free film screening is part of “Science in Action and Object ID Day” at the Sam Noble Museum. This free event will feature a variety of hands-on science stations and an opportunity for the public to bring in their mystery objects for museum experts to identify.
For more information about the Sunday Science Film Series, Science in Action Day, and other museum programs, visit the museum’s Web site at www.snomnh.ou.edu, or call (405 325-4712
The Sam Noble Museum is located on the University of Oklahoma Norman campus.
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