Einstein's big idea ; Exploring space : the quest for life. [print]

Contributor(s): Material type: FilmFilmPublisher number: E6004D | Discover MagazineSeries: Discover magazine ultimate DVD libraryPublication details: [New York] : Discover Magazine, (c)2006.Description: 1 videodisc : sound, color ; 4 3/4 inContent type:
  • two-dimensional moving image
Media type:
  • video
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  • videodisc
Uniform titles:
  • Discover (Chicago, Ill.)
  • Nova (Television program)
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  • QC72.W549.E367 2006
  • QC72
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Production credits:
  • Einstein's big idea: a NOVA production by Darlow Smithson Productions for WGBH/Boston and Channel 4, and Arte/France, Tetra Media and Norddeutscher Rundfunk ; written, directed and produced by Gary Johnstone.
  • Exploring space, the quest for life: a co-production of KCTS Television and New HampshireK/Japan ; writer, Scott Pearson.
Subject: "Einstein's big idea" dramatizes how Einstein arrived at his 1905 discovery that the realms of matter and energy are linked. Reveals the roots of this breakthrough in the human stories of scientists Michael Farady, Antoine Lavoisier and Lise Maitner, whose innovative thinking across four centuries helped lead to E=mcp2s, and ultimately unleashed the power of the atom.Subject: "Exploring space, the quest for life" looks at scientific discoveries on Earth and how they bring us closer to answering some of life's cosmic questions, like "how did life begin?" and "is there life outside of Earth?"
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Einstein's big idea: a NOVA production by Darlow Smithson Productions for WGBH/Boston and Channel 4, and Arte/France, Tetra Media and Norddeutscher Rundfunk ; written, directed and produced by Gary Johnstone.

Exploring space, the quest for life: a co-production of KCTS Television and New HampshireK/Japan ; writer, Scott Pearson.

Einstein's big idea originally aired on PBS as a segment of the television program Nova.

Einstein's big idea: running time, 110 minutes.

Exploring space, the quest for life: running time, 114 minutes.

Einstein's big idea based on book, E=mcp2s : a biography of the world's most famous equation, by David Bodanis.

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"Einstein's big idea" dramatizes how Einstein arrived at his 1905 discovery that the realms of matter and energy are linked. Reveals the roots of this breakthrough in the human stories of scientists Michael Farady, Antoine Lavoisier and Lise Maitner, whose innovative thinking across four centuries helped lead to E=mcp2s, and ultimately unleashed the power of the atom.

"Exploring space, the quest for life" looks at scientific discoveries on Earth and how they bring us closer to answering some of life's cosmic questions, like "how did life begin?" and "is there life outside of Earth?"

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