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TV series / 2015
The Mystery of Matter: Search for the Elements
An exciting three-part 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. Three hour-long episodes tell the story of seven of history’s most important scientists as they seek to identify, understand and organize the basic building blocks of matter.
The story
An exciting three-part 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. Three hour-long episodes tell the story of seven of history’s most important scientists as they seek to identify, understand and organize the basic building blocks of matter.
Cast
Michael EmersonNarrator
Juliet RylanceMarie Curie
Yan TualAntoine Fourcroy
Hugo BeckerAntoine Lavoisier
Marshall BerensonJoao Jacinto de Magellan
Erik BloomquistRobert Southey
Ava Deluca-VerleyMarie Anne Lavoisier
Ronald GuttmanJean Charles Trudaine de Montigny
Michael AronovDmitri Mendeleev
Gene RavvinAleksandr Inostrantsev
Martin RaynerEugene-Anatole Demarçay
Sebastian RochéPierre Curie
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