Duration: 30 minutes
Documentary. The realisation that everything is made from atoms has been referred to as the greatest scientific breakthrough in history. Nuclear physicist Professor Jim Al- Khalili looks into the history of that discovery. He studies the scientists, like Einstein and Heisenberg, who were driven by a thirst for glory.
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