Title E = Mc2: Einstein's Big Idea - Ep 2 of 2 / Director: Johnstone, Gary

Published Australia : SBS 2, 2011

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Description 1 online resource (streaming video file) (52 min. 15 sec.) ; 317682994 bytes Summary One hundred years ago, patent clerk third class, Albert Einstein grappled with the implications of his special theory of relativity and came to a startling conclusion: that mass and energy are one, related by the formula E=mc?. A new two part doco-drama series that explores the lives of the men and women who helped develop the concepts behind each term in the equation. The men and women who contributed to Einstein's big idea include: Michael Faraday, Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier, James Clerk Maxwell, Emilie du Chatelet and Lise Meitner. E=mc? stars Aidan McArdle as Einstein and Shirley Henderson as his first wife, Mileva. Actor John Lithgow narrates. (From the US, in English) (Documentary Series) (Part 2) Event Broadcast 2011-08-01 at 19:30:00 Notes Classification: PG Subject Atoms -- Research. Du Châtelet, Gabrielle Emilie Le Tonnelier de Breteuil, marquise, 1706-1749. Einstein, Albert, 1879-1955. Meitner, Lise, 1878-1968. Physicists -- Biography. Special relativity (Physics) -- Mathematics. France. Germany -- Berlin. Form Streaming video Author Bodanis, David, contributor Fara, Patricia, contributor Gates, James Jr., contributor Johnstone, Gary, director Kaku, Michio, contributor Lithgow, John, cast Randall, Lisa, contributor Sime, Ruth Lewin, contributor Zinsser, Judith P., contributor

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