Publication
[Boston, Mass.] : WGBH Boston Video, [2005]. Responsibility: WGBH Educational Foundation [and others] ; written, directed, and produced by Gary Johnstone. Notes: Based on the book E=mc² : a biography of the world's most famous equation by David Bodanis. Credits: Director of photography, Christopher Titus King ; production design, Judith Stanley Smith ; film editor, Rick Aplio ; composer, Michael J. McEvoy. Performer(s): Narrator: John Lithgow ; featuring: Aidan McArdle, Shirley Henderson, Steven Robertson, Gregory Fox-Murphy, Alex Macqueen, Sam West, Robert Styles, Brendan Fleming. Event notes: Originally broadcast on television on Nova in 2005.
Details: DVD, Dolby digital. Contents: Bern, Switzerland 1905 -- E is for energy : Michael Faraday -- M is for Mass : Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier -- C is for Celeritas : James Clerk Maxwell --
Two is for squared : Emilie du Chatelet -- E=mc2 : the Holy Grail of physics -- Unlocking the atome : Lise Meitner -- E=mc2 : the future. OCLC Number: 785743114. 1 videodisc (112 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Call number
DVD / Front Desk
ISBN
1593753179 / 9781593753177
UPC
783421388895
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CSS Library Notes
Named Person: Albert Einstein; David Bodanis .
Description: Everyone's heard of it, but what does E=mc2 -- the worldís most famous equation -- really mean? And why did it change the world?With brilliant period recreations, NOVA dramatizes how an obscure young patent clerk, Albert Einstein, came up with his shattering 1905 discovery that the realms of matter and energy are inescapably linked. An accessible, suspenseful epic, Einstein's Big Idea reveals the roots of his astonishing breakthrough in the human stories of men and women whose innovative thinking across four centuries helped lead to E=mc2, and ultimately unleashed the power of the atom.Here are stories rich with achievement and failure, feuds and duplicity, love and rivalry, politics and revenge: Michael Faraday, the penniless blacksmithís son who fought the ridicule of the scientific establishment; Antoine Lavoisier, the cool-headed experimenter who fell victim to the guillotine; and Lise Meitner, the physicist who weathered Nazi persecution and personal betrayal on her path to discovering the splitting of the atom.As one discovery builds on the next, Einstein's Big Idea shows how Einstein's saga began with the personal lives of these pioneers and their years of persistence, ingenuity, sacrifice, and heroic struggle against the odds.The film stars Aidan McArdle (Ella Enchanted) as Einstein, and Shirley Henderson (Bridget Jones and Harry Potter) as Einstein's first wife, Mileva Maric.
FY2009 / jvsn
Description: Everyone's heard of it, but what does E=mc2 -- the worldís most famous equation -- really mean? And why did it change the world?With brilliant period recreations, NOVA dramatizes how an obscure young patent clerk, Albert Einstein, came up with his shattering 1905 discovery that the realms of matter and energy are inescapably linked. An accessible, suspenseful epic, Einstein's Big Idea reveals the roots of his astonishing breakthrough in the human stories of men and women whose innovative thinking across four centuries helped lead to E=mc2, and ultimately unleashed the power of the atom.Here are stories rich with achievement and failure, feuds and duplicity, love and rivalry, politics and revenge: Michael Faraday, the penniless blacksmithís son who fought the ridicule of the scientific establishment; Antoine Lavoisier, the cool-headed experimenter who fell victim to the guillotine; and Lise Meitner, the physicist who weathered Nazi persecution and personal betrayal on her path to discovering the splitting of the atom.As one discovery builds on the next, Einstein's Big Idea shows how Einstein's saga began with the personal lives of these pioneers and their years of persistence, ingenuity, sacrifice, and heroic struggle against the odds.The film stars Aidan McArdle (Ella Enchanted) as Einstein, and Shirley Henderson (Bridget Jones and Harry Potter) as Einstein's first wife, Mileva Maric.
FY2009 / jvsn
Physical description
4.75 inches
Description
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 centures helped lead to E=mc², and ultimately unleashed the power of the atom.
Language
Original language
English