TV series
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.
1 season · 3 episodes
S1 E1Out of Thin Air (1754-1806)
Aug 19, 201560 min
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 world
S1 E2Unruly Elements (1859-1902)
Aug 19, 201560 min
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 name
S1 E3Into the Atom (1910-1960)
Aug 19, 201560 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 chem
Michael Emerson
Narrator
Juliet Rylance
Marie Curie
Yan Tual
Antoine Fourcroy
Hugo Becker
Antoine Lavoisier
Marshall Berenson
Joao Jacinto de Magellan
Erik Bloomquist
Robert Southey
Ava Deluca-Verley
Marie Anne Lavoisier
Ronald Guttman
Jean Charles Trudaine de Montigny
Michael Aronov
Dmitri Mendeleev
Gene Ravvin
Aleksandr Inostrantsev
Martin Rayner
Eugene-Anatole Demarçay
Sebastian Roché
Pierre Curie
