His well-known operas include Nixon in China ( 1987 ), which recounts Richard Nixon's 1972 visit to China, and Doctor Atomic ( 2005 ), which covers Robert Oppenheimer, the Manhattan Project, and the building of the first atomic bomb.

Doctor Atomic ( 2005 ): An opera in two acts, about Robert Oppenheimer, the Manhattan Project, and the creation and testing of the first atomic bomb.

The libretto of Doctor Atomic by Peter Sellars draws on original source material, including personal memoirs, recorded interviews, technical manuals of nuclear physics, declassified government documents, and the poetry of the Bhagavad Gita, John Donne, Charles Baudelaire, and Muriel Rukeyser.

* ( 2005 ) Doctor Atomic

* ( 2007 ) Doctor Atomic Symphony

* Doctor Atomic website for the opera

* Essay on Doctor Atomic by Thomas May

The Death of Klinghoffer, Nixon in China and Doctor Atomic by John Adams, Dead Man Walking by Jake Heggie, and Anna Nicole by Mark-Anthony Turnage exemplify the dramatisation on stage of events in recent living memory, where characters portrayed in the opera were alive at the time of the premiere performance.

Incorporated within the production programming of Animating Opera is the America staged premiere of Messiaen's Saint-François d ' Assise, the complete version of Berlioz's Les Troyens, Virgil Thomson's The Mother of Us All, as well as a commission for a new work by John Adams and Peter Sellars entitled Doctor Atomic, which premiered on October 1, 2005.

Recent productions have included Harbison's The Great Gatsby ( 2000 – 2001 ), Weill's Street Scene ( 2001 – 2002 ), and Floyd's Susannah and Sondheim's Sweeney Todd ( 2002 – 2003 ), and John Adams ' Doctor Atomic directed by Peter Sellars.

** Alan Gilbert ( conductor ), Jay David Saks ( producer ), various solo performers for Doctor Atomic

* Alan Gilbert ( conductor ), Jay David Saks ( producer ), various solo performers for Doctor Atomic

John Adams set one of her texts to music in his opera Doctor Atomic.

* In Doctor Atomic, the shape of the first atomic bomb detonated in New Mexico was a pentakis dodecahedron.

* Doctor Atomic

The rise-and-fall of American physicist and " father of the atomic bomb " J. Robert Oppenheimer has been the subject and inspiration of a number of plays — Heinar Kipphardt's In the Matter J. Robert Oppenheimer ( 1964 ), PBS's American Playhouse's 7 part " Oppenheimer " ( 1982 ), and even an opera, Doctor Atomic ( 2005 ).

Sellars directed and wrote the libretto for Adams's Doctor Atomic, about Robert Oppenheimer and the development of the atomic bomb, for the San Francisco Opera ( 2005 ), De Nederlandse Opera, and the Chicago Lyric Opera ( 2008 ).

He introduced the screenings of Mahamat Saleh Haroun's Daratt and Garin Nugroho's Opera Jawa, two of the New Crowned Hope films and it also screened Jon Else's documentary, Wonders Are Many, which features an account of Adams's and Sellars's creation of the first San Francisco production of Doctor Atomic.

Doctor Atomic is an opera by the contemporary American composer John Adams, with libretto by Peter Sellars.

Doctor Atomic is similar in style to previous Adams operas Nixon in China and The Death of Klinghoffer, both of which explored the characters and personalities that were involved in historical incidents, rather than a re-enactment of the events themselves.

In August 2010, the Dutton CD label issued three works taken from 1959 BBC broadcasts: the Comedy Overture Doctor Merryheart and 11th Symphony ( with Harry Newstone conducting the London Symphony Orchestra ) and the 9th Symphony ( Norman del Mar and the LSO ).

That performance featured Ian McKellen ( Alexander ), John Wood ( Ivanov ) and Patrick Stewart ( the Doctor ), as well as the London Symphony Orchestra conducted by Previn.

The story titled " A Symphony of Shadows " features a Homo magi named Zatanna, who is searching for her mother Sindella, and provides the possible origins of Zatanna Zatara, Giovanni Zatara and Doctor Mist.

: Rufus Sewell read a 10-part audio adaptation combining and abridging Doctor Syn on the High Seas and Doctor Syn Returns for BBC Radio, broadcast on BBC Radio 7 in December 2006 and repeated in June 2007.

: A 10-part audio adaptation of The Further Adventures of Doctor Syn ( combining and abridging The Further Adventures of Doctor Syn and The Shadow of Doctor Syn ) read by Rufus Sewell was performed on BBC Radio 7 in December 2007.

* Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters, and Commencement Speaker at Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles on May 5, 2007

It is located in a binary star system ( Gridlock ) within the constellation of Kasterborous ( Pyramids of Mars, Attack of the Cybermen and Voyage of the Damned ), at " galactic coordinates ten-zero-eleven-zero-zero by zero-two from galactic zero centre " ( Pyramids of Mars ( 1975 ), Full Circle ( 1980 ) and partially in " The Family of Blood " ( 2007 )), which is some 250 million light years away from Earth ( as stated in the 1996 Doctor Who television movie ).

The Doctor's granddaughter Susan described her home world ( not named as " Gallifrey " at the time ) as having bright, silver-leafed trees and a burnt orange sky at night ( The Sensorites, 1964 ), features that the Tenth Doctor reiterates in the episode " Gridlock " ( 2007 ).

However, the Daleks return in " Bad Wolf "/" The Parting of the Ways " ( 2005 ), and subsequently in " Army of Ghosts "/" Doomsday " ( 2006 ), " Daleks in Manhattan "/" Evolution of the Daleks " ( 2007 ), " The Stolen Earth "/" Journey's End " ( 2008 ) and " Victory of the Daleks " ( 2010 ), the penultimate of these being the series 4 finale where Davros also returns, and the final of these being the first time the Eleventh Doctor meets the Daleks.

These suspicions are later borne out in " Utopia " ( 2007 ), when the Tenth Doctor discovers that the renegade Time Lord the Master has survived the Time War and has been living in human form in the year 100 trillion, at the end of the material universe, a point so far forward in time that no Time Lord has ever travelled there.

* Phobos ( audio drama ), a 2007 audio drama based on Doctor Who

* Doctor honoris causa by the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven ( 2007 )

In the 2007 Children in Need special " Time Crash " the Fifth Doctor complains to the Tenth Doctor that he had " changed the desktop theme!

and the 2007 The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Black Dossier, audiobooks such as the Doctor Who Judgement of the Judoon, and videogames such as Duke Nukem 3D and Team Fortress 2.

* The 2007 series of Doctor Who: Present time ( such as " Smith and Jones ") is primarily set in 2008.

* 2007 television series The Sarah Jane Adventures is set in this time, the earliest January following " a year and a half " after Doctor Who episode " School Reunion ".

* In the 2007, Doctor Who novel Made of Steel ( ISBN 1846072042 ) written by Terrance Dicks, featuring the Tenth Doctor, published by BBC Books, the Cybermen have made the empty dome their base.

On September 22, 2007, Eastwood was awarded an honorary Doctor of Music degree from the Berklee College of Music at the Monterey Jazz Festival, on which he serves as an active board member.

On 2 February 2007, he was awarded the degree of Doctor Honoris Causa by the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium.

Beginning in February 2007, Nielsen began playing a small role as a doctor in the humorous yet educational television show Doctor * Ology.

Wells has been used as the setting for several films including: The Canterbury Tales ( 1973 ), A Fistful of Fingers ( 1994 ), The Gathering ( 2002 ), The Libertine ( 2005 ), The Golden Age ( 2007 ), and Hot Fuzz ( 2007 ) The cathedral interior stood in for Southwark Cathedral during filming for the Doctor Who episode The Lazarus Experiment.