The mystery of matter search for the elements
Title:
The mystery of matter search for the elements
Author:
Credits:
A production of Moreno/Lyons Productions in association with Oregon Public Broadcasting ; written and produced by Stephen Lyons ; directed by Muffie Meyer and Stephen Lyons.
Publication Date(s):
2015
Format:
DVD
Physical Description:
1 videodisc (approximately 180 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
General Note:
Three-episodes of one-hour each.
Special features: A momentous encounter (Joseph Priestly) ; Lavoisier's better half (Antoine Lavoisier) ; Davy's greatest failure (Humphry Davy) ; The element Mendeleev never accepted (Dmitri Mendeleev) ; The radium craze (Marie Curie) ; Changing the role of scientists in war (Harry Moseley) ; A chemist goes to war (Glenn Seaborg)
Credit:
Editor, Raoul Rosenberg ; director of photography, Gary Henoch.
Performer:
Host, Michael Emerson.
Event Note:
Premiered in Oregon on October 20, 2014; premiered nationwide on August 19, 2015.
Contents:
Episode 1. Out of thin air (1754-1806) -- Episode 2. Unruly elements (1859-1902) -- Episode 3. Into the atom (1910-1960).
Description:
An exciting PBS 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--to identify, understand and organize the basic building blocks of matter.
Reading Level:
Rating: TVPG.
Grade level: High school (9-12).
Document ID:
SD_ILS:1480205
Language:
English
