100 Greatest Discoveries Season 1 Episode 6 Chemistry 2004
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Thirteen building blocks in a science that may be the foundation of the modern world: Joseph Priestly and Antoine Lavoisier's discovery of oxygen, John Dalton's atomic theory, Avogadro's Law, Friedrich Woehler's synthesis of urea, Friedrich Kekule's studies of molecular structure, Dmitry Mendeleyev's Periodic Table, Humphry Davy's electrolysis, J. J. Thomson's discovery of the electron, Niels Bohr's model of atomic structure, Gustav Kirchhoff and Robert Bunson's electromagnetic spectroscopy, Marie Curie's isolation of radioactive materials, John Wesley Hyatt and Leo Baekeland's invention of plastics, and the discovery of fullerenes.
- Released: 2005-01-19
- Runtime: 45 minutes
- Genre: Documentary
- Stars: Bill Nye
- Director:
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1. Evolution 2004-12-08
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2. Earth Sciences 2004-12-15
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3. Physics 2004-12-22
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4. Medicine 2005-01-05
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5. Astronomy 2005-01-12
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6. Chemistry 2005-01-19
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7. Biology 2005-01-26
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8. Genetics 2005-02-02
