Stephen Lyons
Director
The Mystery of Matter: Search for the Elements (2015)
Season 1
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.
Released Aug. 19, 2015
Episode 60 min
7+
Genres: Biography, Documentary, History
Keywords: mdblist.imdb-tv-mini-series, imdb.tv-mini-series, imdb.reenactment
Watch Providers: Pure Flix
Production Companies: Moreno/Lyons Productions
Network: PBS
Country: United States
Languages:
English
S1E1 - Out of Thin Air (1754-1806)
One of science’s great odd couples — British minister Joseph Priestley and French tax administrator Antoine Lavoisier — together discover a fantastic new gas called oxygen, overturning the reigning theory of chemistry and triggering a worldwide search for new elements. Soon caught up in the hunt is science’s first great showman, a precocious British chemist named Humphry Davy, who dazzles London audiences with his lectures, introduces them to laughing gas and turns the battery into a powerful tool in the search for new elements.
Aug. 19, 2015, midnight
S1E2 - Unruly Elements (1859-1902)
Over a single weekend in 1869, a young Russian chemistry professor named Dmitri Mendeleev invents the Periodic Table, bringing order to the growing gaggle of elements. But this sense of order is shattered when a Polish graduate student named Marie Sklodowska Curie discovers radioactivity, revealing that elements can change identities — and that atoms must have undiscovered parts inside them.
Aug. 19, 2015, midnight
S1E3 - Into the Atom (1910-1960)
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.
Aug. 19, 2015, midnight
Network: PBS
Episode Runtime: 60 min.
Season Runtime: 60 min.
Released: Aug. 19, 2015
Last Air Date: Aug. 19, 2015, midnight
Status: Ended
Certification: TV-Y7 / 7+
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