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Mysteries of the universe
- Title
- Mysteries of the universe / a WGBH Science Unit production by the Documentary Guild in association with La Cinquieme.
- Publication
- [Alexandria, Va.] : PBS Home Video, [1998], ©1998.
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- Additional Authors
- Osgood, Charles.
- Buckner, Noel.
- Whittlesey, Rob.
- Christianson, Gale E.
- Baliunas, Sallie L., 1953-
- Tyson, Neil deGrasse.
- Kirshner, Robert P., 1949-
- Galison, Peter, 1955-
- Gates, S. James, Jr.
- Kaku, Michio.
- Longair, Malcolm S., 1941-
- Krauss, Lawrence M., 1954-
- Lewin, Walter H. G.
- Morrison, Philip.
- Burnell, S. Jocelyn.
- Wilkinson, David, Rev. Dr.
- Weinberg, Steven, 1933-2021.
- Lederman, Leon M.
- Wilson, Robert, 1928-1983.
- WGBH (Television station : Boston, Mass.). Science Unit.
- Documentary Guild.
- Cinquième (Firm)
- PBS Home Video.
- Description
- 1 videocassette (120 min.) : sound, color and black and white; 1/2 in.
- Summary
- Focuses on the revolutions in physics and astronomy and looks into scientists' century-long struggle to discover the fundamental laws of the natural world. Topics include telescopes, pulsars, the size of the universe, astrophysics, black holes, the structure of the atom and super colliders.
- Uniform Title
- Science odyssey.
- Subjects
- Neutron stars > History
- Big bang theory > History
- Relativity (Physics) > History
- Science > History > 20th century
- Quantum theory > History
- Particles (Nuclear physics) > History
- Radio telescopes > History
- Black holes (Astronomy) > History
- Hubble, Edwin, 1889-1953
- Gell-Mann, Murray
- Einstein, Albert, 1879-1955
- Schrödinger, Erwin, 1887-1961
- Superconducting Super Collider > History
- Cosmology > History > 20th century
- Atomic bomb > History
- Technology > History > 20th century
- Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory History
- Hale, George Ellery, 1868-1938
- String models > History
- Telescopes > History
- Films for the hearing impaired
- Bohr, Niels, 1885-1962
- Quarks > History
- Dickey, Robert William, 1891-
- Heisenberg, Werner, 1901-1976
- Note
- Originally shown on television as a segment of the television program: A science odyssey
- Closed captioned for the hearing impaired.
- Credits (note)
- Written, produced and directed by Noel Buckner & Rob Whittlesey ; associate producer, Liz Carver ; executive-in-charge, Paula S. Apsell ; executive producer, Thomas Friedman.
- System Details (note)
- VHS.
- ISBN
- 078062212X
- OCLC
- 42499728
- ocm42499728
- SCSB-3893241
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries