Final Scientific/Technical Report to the U.S. Department of Energy on NOVA's Einstein's Big Idea (Project title: E-mc², A Two-Hour Television Program on NOVA)

Technical Report · Mon May 07 00:00:00 EDT 2007

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/910282· OSTI ID:910282

Simpson, Susanne

A woman in the early 1700s who became one of Europe’s leading interpreters of mathematics and a poor bookbinder who became one of the giants of nineteenth-century science are just two of the pioneers whose stories NOVA explored in Einstein’s Big Idea. This two-hour documentary premiered on PBS in October 2005 and is based on the best-selling book by David Bodanis, E=mc2: A Biography of the World’s Most Famous Equation. The film and book chronicle the scientific challenges and discoveries leading up to Einstein’s startling conclusion that mass and energy are one, related by the formula E = mc².

• Research Organization: WGBH Educational Foundation
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE Office of Science (SC)
• DOE Contract Number: FG02-05ER35852
• OSTI ID: 910282
• Report Number(s): DOE/ER/35852; TRN: US0704046
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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43 PARTICLE ACCELERATORS
72 PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS
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12 MANAGEMENT OF RADIOACTIVE AND NON-RADIOACTIVE WASTES FROM NUCLEAR FACILITIES
22 GENERAL STUDIES OF NUCLEAR REACTORS
25 ENERGY STORAGE
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46 INSTRUMENTATION RELATED TO NUCLEAR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
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