The Mystery of Matter: Search for the Elements
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.
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Michael Emerson
Narrator · 3 eps
Juliet Rylance
Marie Curie · 1 ep
Yan Tual
Antoine Fourcroy · 1 ep
Hugo Becker
Antoine Lavoisier · 1 ep
Marshall Berenson
Joao Jacinto de Magellan · 1 ep
Erik Bloomquist
Robert Southey · 1 ep
Ava Deluca-Verley
Marie Anne Lavoisier · 1 ep
Ronald Guttman
Jean Charles Trudaine de Montigny · 1 ep
Michael Aronov
Dmitri Mendeleev · 1 ep
Gene Ravvin
Aleksandr Inostrantsev · 1 ep
Martin Rayner
Eugene-Anatole Demarçay · 1 ep
Sebastian Roché
Pierre Curie · 1 ep
John Curless
Ernest Rutherford · 1 ep
Lucas Dixon
Charles G. Darwin · 1 ep
Nick Gehlfuss
Glenn Seaborg · 1 ep
Ian Lyons
Ed McMillan · 1 ep
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