Name: The Mystery of Matter: Search for the Elements
Released: August 19, 2015
Cast: Michael Emerson John Allegra Michael Aronov John Curless

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Seasons

3. Into the Atom

August 19, 2015

Caught up in the race to discover the atom's internal parts--and learn how they fit together--is a young British physicist named Harry Moseley, who uses newly discovered X-rays to put the Periodic Table in a whole new light. And a young American chemist named Glenn Seaborg creates a new element--plutonium--that changes the world forever, unleashing a force of unimaginable destructive power: the atomic bomb.

2. Unruly Elements

August 19, 2015

Over a single weekend in 1869, a young Russian chemistry professor named Dmitri Mendeleev invents the Periodic Table, bringing order to the growing gaggle of elements. But this sense of order is shattered when a Polish graduate student named Marie Sklodowska Curie discovers radioactivity, revealing that elements can change identities-- and that atoms must have undiscovered parts inside them.

1. Out of Thin Air

August 19, 2015

One of science's great odd couples--British minister Joseph Priestley and French tax administrator Antoine Lavoisier--together discover a fantastic new gas called oxygen, overturning the reigning theory of chemistry and triggering a worldwide search for new elements.

Description

The Mystery of Matter is an exciting PBS 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--to identify, understand and organize the basic building blocks of matter.The Mystery of Matter: Search for the Elements is a series that is currently running and has 1 seasons (3 episodes). The series first aired on August 19, 2015.

Where to Watch The Mystery of Matter: Search for the Elements

The Mystery of Matter: Search for the Elements is available for streaming on the PBS website, both individual episodes and full seasons. You can also watch The Mystery of Matter: Search for the Elements on demand at Amazon Prime.