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About The Mystery of Matter: Search for the Elements
The Mystery of Matter: Search for the Elements is 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. Three hour-long episodes introduce viewers to some of history's most extraordinary scientists: Joseph Priestley and Antoine Lavoisier, whose discovery of oxygen—and radical interpretation of it—led to the modern science of chemistry; Humphry Davy, who made electricity a powerful new tool in the search for elements; Dmitri Mendeleev, whose Periodic Table brought order to the growing gaggle of elements; Marie Curie, whose groundbreaking research on radioactivity cracked open a window into the atom; Harry Moseley, whose discovery of atomic number redefined the Periodic Table; and Glenn Seaborg, whose discovery of plutonium opened up a whole new realm of elements, still being explored today.
The Mystery of Matter: Search for the Elements episode schedule
3 aired
Aired · 3
| Date | Ep. | Title |
|---|---|---|
| August 19, 2015 | S1·E3 | Into the Atom (1910-1960) |
| August 19, 2015 | S1·E2 | Unruly Elements (1859-1902) |
| August 19, 2015 | S1·E1 | Out of Thin Air (1754-1806) |