Learning on ScreenNobel’s Greatest Hits: Science
- Alternative title
- Understand Science: Nobel’s Greatest Hits Explained
- Synopsis
- Five 10-minute programmes from the series NOBEL’S GREATEST HITS on topics relating to advances in science and understanding that have brought us to the brink of controlling and destroying our world .
- Language
- English
- Country
- Great Britain
- Year of release
- 2001
- Year of production
- 2001
- Notes
- Each part available separately on video from York Films
- Subjects
- Science
- Keywords
- atomic physics; cosmology; history of science; Nobel Prize winners; quantum mechanics; radioactivity
Distribution Formats
- Type
- DVD
- Format
- Region 2 PAL
- Price
- £15.99
- Availability
- Sale
- Duration/Size
- 70 minutes
- Year
- 2005
Sections
- Title
- Wired
- Synopsis
- Looks at how radio, television and the computer have changed our lives through the inventions of Nobel prizewinners. Subjects covered include the triode valve, the cathode ray tube, the transistor, the silicon chip and the laser, Marconi’s first trans-Atlantic radio signal, the information superhighway and satellite communication.
- Duration
- 10 mins
- Title
- Super Cool
- Synopsis
- Looks at how the discovery that electricity flows with little or no resistance at ultra-low temperatures prompted a string of Nobel laureates to hunt for superconductors that can deliver cheap electricity. The resulting science of super cool and the strange properties of superconductors delivered much more, such as Japan’s levitating train, smaller and more efficient motors, faster and tinier computers, high speed communication.
- Duration
- 10 mins
- Title
- Beyond the atom
- Synopsis
- Looks at Nobel Prizewinners such as Ernest Rutherford, Niels Bohr and James Chadwick and their work in breaking down atoms into protons, neutrons and electrons. Subjects covered include the atom-smasher, the discovery of anti-matter, and the classification of sub-atomic particles into quarks and anti-quarks, bosons and leptons.
- Duration
- 10 mins
- Title
- Quantum leaps
- Synopsis
- Quantum mechanics - the measurement and workings of the smallest entities - are so strange they take years to gain acceptance. The most eminent Nobel Prizewinners - Max Planck, Albert Einstein, Neils Bohr, Erwin Schrödinger and Carl Heisenberg - explain how light is small packets of energy called quanta, how waves can be particles and particles can be waves, and how The Uncertainty Principle means everyday experience no longer applies.
- Duration
- 10 mins
- Title
- Good, the bad, The
- Synopsis
- This film looks at the discovery of radioactivity by the three French Nobel Prizewinners Marie and Pierre Curie and Henri Becquerel and its application in the atomic bomb and the generation of nuclear electricity. Subjects covered include radioactivity in medicine, archaeology and space exploration; the problem of disposing spent nuclear fuel; and the disaster at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in 1986.
- Duration
- 10 mins
- Title
- Cracking the cosmos
- Synopsis
- Looks at the work of Nobel Prizewinners on the cosmos. Subjects covered include the origin of matter and its 92 elements, the Big Bang theory, cosmic background radiation, how matter formed in a particle soup when the Universe was less than one second old, how stars produce energy, and how heavy elements like iron are born in super-massive stars.
- Duration
- 10 mins
- Title
- Loners
- Synopsis
- Looks at the work of three Nobel winners: Sweden’s Gustav Dalén makes sea-faring safer by developing the automated lighthouse; Finland’s Artturi Virtenen finds the chemical tricks of silage-making to feed cattle through the winter with sweet-tasting forage; Switzerland’s Paul Müller discovers the insecticidal properties of DDT.
- Duration
- 10 mins
Production Company
- Name
York Films of England
- office@yorkfilms.com
- Web
- http://www.yorkfilms.com External site opens in new window
- Phone
- 01303 226 2345
- Fax
- 01303 858 196
- Address
- 23 Bradstone Avenue
Folkestone
Kent
CT19 5AQ - Notes
- York Films specialises in producing science programming for television, particularly space and astronomy, with a strong emphasis on using CGI. Several series are available for sale on DVD on topics including Nobel prizewinners, bee breeding and six programmes on the bicycle.
Distributor
- Name
How2DVD
- info@how2dvd.co.uk
- Web
- www.how2dvd.co.uk External site opens in new window
- Phone
- 020 8707 0523
- Fax
- 020 8707 4931
- Address
- 19 Grasmere Close
Feltham
Middlesex TW14 9QW
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