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Basic Info

First Air: August 19, 2015

Rating: ⭐ 7.3/10 (3 votes)

Status: Ended

Seasons & Episodes

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 3

Last Episode

Name: Into the Atom (1910-1960)

Season: 1, Episode: 3

Air Date: 2015-08-19

Runtime: 60 min

Caught up in the race to discover the atom’s internal parts — and learn how they fit together — a young British physicist, Harry Moseley, uses newly discovered X-rays to put the Periodic Table in a whole new light. And a young American chemist named Glenn Seaborg creates a new element — plutonium — that changes the world forever, unleashing a force of unimaginable destructive power: the atomic bomb.

The Mystery of Matter: Search for the Elements

2015 1 seasons 3 episodes ⭐ 7.3/10 3 votes

Overview

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.