The Mystery of Matter: Search for the Elements(2015)
Documentary
First Air Date: 2015-08-19
Average Runtime: 1h 0m
Rating: 7.3
Votes: 3
Seasons: 1
Episodes: 3
An exciting three-part series about one of the great adventures in the history of science: the long and continuing quest to understand what the world is made of. Three hour-long episodes tell the story of seven of history’s most important scientists as they seek to identify, understand and organize the basic building blocks of matter.
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Season 1
Episodes: 3E01
Out of Thin Air (1754-1806)
Air Date: 2015-08-19
One of science’s great odd couples — British minister Joseph Priestley and French tax administrator Antoine Lavoisier...
E02
Unruly Elements (1859-1902)
Air Date: 2015-08-19
Over a single weekend in 1869, a young Russian chemistry professor named Dmitri Mendeleev invents the Periodic Table,...
E03
Into the Atom (1910-1960)
Air Date: 2015-08-19
Caught up in the race to discover the atom’s internal parts — and learn how they fit together — a young British physi...
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