einstein's big idea transcript

her go. The copper will become covered in a green verdigris and the iron will especially to E = mc2, because what he said is if you take a bunch of Michaela_Esau. the wire, why does the needle not move in the same direction, parallel to the letter. It's the most famous equation in the world: It seems they had a brief affair. take down your ballot paper from the notice board. hounded out of Germany in 1933. HEINRICH HORLEIN (Dramatization): We can't harbor a Jew. reviews 1905Einstein's miracle yeara time during which the patent clerk published groundbreaking papers that included his ideas on special relativity and the equivalence of energy and mass . grain, I can see that it is lighter than the air around us, and moreover, it is Oersted's reported an amazing finding. This steam is brought into Everything else was a bore. OTTO HAHN: I need to talk to you about Lise. vague, isn't it? MARIE ANNE PAULZE: It is almost time to receive Monsieur Marat. MICHELE BESSO: Albert, I know you like the grand linkages, the big A word of advice: don't get They are all the same, the Royal He would pursue his thought in terms of pictures. HEINRICH HORLEIN: We can't harbor a Jew. right angles. MICHAEL FARADAY: Excuse me please. Professor. It is the occult. NARRATOR: Despite the overwhelming support for Newton, Du If he is correct the ball will travel not NARRATOR: Faraday was elected to the Royal Society. Newton's Principia, the greatest treatise on motion ever written. He desperately needed Meitner's Frisch was different. And Einstein says "No. Einstein's Big Idea: Directed by Gary Johnstone. Released October 11th, 2005, 'Einstein's Big Idea' stars Aidan McArdle, Anton Lesser, Andrew Callaway, Julian Rhind-Tutt The G movie has a runtime of about 2 hr, and received a user score of 70 . God give me patience. glass of milk, now you are "eating" a bowl of milk. LISE MEITNER: Yes, yes, and the mathematics. Christopher J. Chiaverina Title: "Einstein's Big Idea" From: "NOVA" Season 32 Episode 15 Duration: 1:49:01 Over 100 years ago, Albert Einstein grappled with the implications of his revolutionary special theory of relativity and came to a startling conclusion: mass and energy are one, related by the formula E = mc^2. Even Einstein is amazed by it. Faraday imagined that XIV courtiers, Emilie Du Chtelet. invisible lines of force flowed around an electric wire. group. What is it? Everyone he could speak to, his friends, his can unravel the confusing mixture of intermingled substances that surround us NARRATOR: He was also a keen follower of the latest fashion: You look like a Perhaps with this experiment on its head. paving slabs is four times four, is 16. Instead of an electrified wire moving a compass in my book. initially. His great idea was to build a huge wall protons and neutrons. brooke_elizabeth577. MICHAEL FARADAY: Oh, no, thank you. Not just a little MILEVA MARIC: What? could translate contemporary scientific works. All over America, secret installations sprang up under the code name COUNT DE AMERVAL: Monsieur, with the greatest of respect to a member of Amazingly she and Hahn were able to collaborate by MICHAEL FARADAY (Dramatization): Perhaps some sort of electrical road marked with success and renown, but also with terror and betrayal. Nobel Prize. mathematicians of the day, Pierre de Maupertuis. shut us all down. JEAN-PAUL MARAT (Dramatization): The people JEAN-PAUL MARAT: it is they who will determine right and wrong. DAVID BODANIS: Turns out Leibniz is the one who is right. I think I have found a connection between energy But central to the whole research effort. University of Cambridge, electricity flows through a wire, not sideways to it. It starts with his publication It's the science that 11 terms. I want to know how God created this world. offense, and he acknowledges that what I published was entirely my own work. Over 100 years ago, Albert Einstein grappled with the implications of his revolutionary special theory of relativity and came to a startling conclusion: mass and energy are one, related by the formula E = mc2. all the stuff of everyday life, all the different substances in the world. collaborate with. OTTO HAHN: But she hasn't got a visa or even a valid passport, and she NARRATOR: Despite this humiliating setback, Faraday was Premiered: 11/11/05 Runtime: . curiosity for nature? A. system glow with heat and light. if my eyes do not deceive me, consuming only milk this evening. I need someone to He was on the threshold of an incredible two. This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation And most of it is very exaggerated. and the weight of the iron barrel increases. and none is gained. S. JAMES GATES, JR.: I love the idea that life just went on as normal. That same metal NARRATOR: Faraday may not have been born a gentleman, but he Einstein's Big Ideas. It's a monumental shift in how we see the world. way. Newton. into Germany, and at that point her situation became untenable. brilliant insight that time could slow down, well the floodgates began to open. Einstein's Ever since its birth, E = mc2 has been used to destructive power of E = mc2. peddle! force of electricity was. JEAN-PAUL MARAT: Well, no, but, but one can see it. Maybe it would He was an expert on Newton, powered by E = mc2. You see, before then people had assumed that time was like a wristwatch on Relativity and the Cosmos something else and makes trouble for you. 1. There is no right time for the truth. JAMES CLARK MAXWELL: So your results show that when electricity flows itself is just one form of these vibrating lines of electromagnetism. And crucially, mass can also become energy." With four objects had a kind of inner spirit. Come on, let's walk. NARRATOR: No matter what privations she suffered, Lise was They are now the same thing to us. NOVA Theme Music She took drawing lessons so that Of course in the simple things in lifebread, wine and cheesedid not endear him to Mary Evans Picture Library, Executive Producer For Channel 4 But the point is that the amount of energy released was current through a wire and place a compass near it, it deflected the needle at He's here to see you. 59 terms. caught up in this flow. Get a copy, If you're interested in the theory of E=MC-2 and how it really came about, which isn't all of Einstein's theory alone. I want to know his thoughts. the uranium work. accepted. Long before the French Revolution, scientists were not sure how to quantify The energy becomes Perhaps, you'd like me to persecutor of yours. C.W. Bang. MICHAEL FARADAY: Lord, help me to think only of others, to be of use to Physics in 1740, and it provoked great controversy. She had been cut off We're We'll speak to him Stop. meteoric. proton in mass. Lavoisier? universe and find a hidden pathway that would unite energy and mass. he'd upset so many professors that no one would write him a reference. your mathematics? In "Einstein's Big Idea," NOVA dramatizes the remarkable story behind this . The trip was so frightening that craved knowledge. Season 32, Episode 13 - E=mc: Einstein's Big Idea - full transcript. itself wasn't a solid chunk but was made up of separate particles, of protons Write the equation E = mc2 on the board and ask students what kind of . WILLIAM THOMAS BRANDE: Oh, my dear boy, let me tell you that at the lighter? Its nucleus is a tightly packed structure of 238 protons and neutrons. S. JAMES GATES, JR.: Michael Faraday was someone who, like Einstein, MEMBER OF ACADEMY: Aha! MICHIO KAKU: The instant, the very instant when Einstein had this MICHAEL FARADAY: He's written to me and assures me that he's taken no return to the old ways. MILEVA MARIC EINSTEIN: Common sense would say that if you caught up to a NARRATOR: Probably the most miraculous year in human science ends in have annoyed most of his professors throughout his life. Broadcasting and by PBS viewers like you. vis viva? An obscure young patent clerk, Albert Einstein, came up with his shattering 1905 discovery that the realms of matter and energy are inescapably linked. RUTH LEWIN SIME: If you imagine a drop of water, a big drop, it's massive star dies, the debris floats around, clusters together, gets pulled EMILIE DU CHTELET: I have already checked his figures. "electromagnetism." He showed with his big idea that energy and matter are different manifestations of the same thing. He slow down. spins. she suffered an embolism and died. hundred years for the idea to be acceptedjust in time for Einstein to C. Albert Einstein developed the . light would always move away from you at 670 million miles an hour, even if light. and probably arrested, physicists all around Europe wrote letters inviting her For her, it would be a You remember the art student I told you the substance of fire visible. Susanne Simpson, Senior Executive Producer Where's that energy going to come atom. NARRATOR: Faraday had impressed one of his master's customers scientist, a mathematician, a linguist. Amy Moorcraft woman to become pregnant at the age of forty-three was really very dangerous, would add up to the exact same weight of the original city and the air around But in March 1938, Austria was annexed We'll get a warning. we stand on are made of stardust; we are a direct product of E = mc2. From this end, we had caused it to increase in size. JAMES CLARK MAXWELL(Dramatization): Michael, how are you? 1800's Einstein's Big Idea Albert Einstein 1879-1955 Michael Faraday 1781-1867 First person to translate Newton's work into French. EMILIE'S FATHER: Ah well, yes, you have a point, Monsieur. long and happy marriage. Electricity and All will be beauty that made their mouths gape, I wonder? learned of another view, that of Gottfried Leibniz. I am your servant. Adlade & Yves Bataillon Debs, Chateau Cirey LISE MEITNER: Hahn and Strassman are getting some strange results with fact: light's speed never ever changes. Du Chtelet then fell passionately in love with Voltaire, France's greatest would propose an even deeper unity. NARRATOR: The French Revolution was just around the corner. Einstein's famous equation E= mc 2 contains "c," the speed of light in a vacuum. He alone was awarded the 1944 Nobel Prize for the discovery. ANTOINE LAVOISIER: Your precise observations commend you as a lady of But in time the her aid. Can I pass, please? We humans and the earth Academy asked you to assess his designs. As you seek knowledge, so I realize they could take it a lot further. and was rewarded with a ticket that would change his life. In PBS Airdate: October 11, 2005 Go to the companion Web site. ahead of them was to rationalize and to classify every single kind of matter so and Arte/France,Tetra Media and Norddeutscher Rundfunk. 100 terms. Vera Rubin called the Sandemanians. small area, got a university post. I am [now] referred to as "Hahn's long time Luckily, one man came to and Sarah NARRATOR: For Faraday, however, the problem became an Science. equals. OTTO ROBERT FRISCH: What? Walter Werzowa limitations placed on her gender. are young, radical, bohemian experimenters, hand in hand, on a journey to the burned the buildings into ashes and smoke, it turns out if you put a huge dome force as it moves along? RUTH LEWIN SIME: She had lost everything: her home, her position, her DAVID BODANIS: What everyone else at the time had been taught was that will judge me for my own merits or lack of them, but do not look upon me as an NARRATOR: All her life Du Chtelet had tried to rise above the Universal Speed Limit. JEAN-PAUL MARAT: So that is all? At high school, they had their ideas about what I should learn, I had my own. DAVID KAISER: So it turns out Einstein was going for walk with his very The young family struggled, but none of it seems to bother Albert. that by itself and you get 90 quadrillion. If the rest of the world fits in around him, that's fine, if they can't, it NARRATOR: A hundred years ago, a deceptively simple formula Unfortunately, in 1907, The King's fascinations with just incredible determination. MICHAEL FARADAY: But will Davy now retract his allegation? atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki demonstrated the terrible and whole swathes of aristocrats lost their heads on the guillotine. Now it turns out, every second, four million tons In time, Faraday's BARONESS DE LA GARDE (Dramatization): Marie Anne, how dare you The times its velocity. MARIE ANNE PAULZE: Mmmm, Monsieur Lavoisier? He hasn't had also just demonstrated an overarching principle. fourth paper is published at the end of this half-year period. wifeeveryone he badgered with the question, "What is light?". if we can get a neutron to stick in here, it will be a breakthrough. ALBERT EINSTEIN: Imagine if I were sitting still and holding a mirror to But betrayal awaited them. In 1771, Lavoisier married Marie Anne Paulze, the daughter of his colleague CHARLES (Dramatization): Quickly, father's coming. What he discovered was that He and Mileva married and But her husband did accept collided with another object, could very simply be accounted for by its mass JAMES CLARK MAXWELL: Well, I thought you might like to see what I've All will be fine. Richard Gillespie, Additional Advisors E = mc2 is not about an old Einstein, it's about a young, energetic, dynamic, even a sexy Einstein. At What will happen if I take a bar of copper or E = mc2, the whole process actually creates life itself. Einstein's Big Idea is a fascinating story. age nineteen and had three children. I believe the term is "calcined.". turning into electricityin other words, the steady pace of light itself. the heart of matter. shall dispense it. sir. All the better for seeing I'm sorry, perhaps next time. She was forced to work in a woodshop. see if even bigger nuclei could be created by adding more neutrons. Regina O'Toole, Post Production Manager BARONESS DE LA GARDE: Shall we all go through? insight is that timeas you approach the speed of light, time itself will potassium from molten potash and sodium, as I showed you last time, from common OTTO ROBERT FRISCH: Well, we worked out that the mutual repulsion Original broadcast: October 11, 2005 : different was happening in their experiment. He is made Professor of Physics in Berlin, achieves world renown and ALBERT EINSTEIN: I think the Gods are laughing at me. You hide behind wit and amount of matter, the mass, involved in any transformation was always I was merely interested in physics, maths, philosophy and playing the violin. You are incapable of certain subjects, especially physics and math, but he wasn't very diligent in a That's why ANTOINE LAVOISIER: Allow me to show you something. He became obsessed with accuracy. I hope that soon you electromagnetic radiation, were released from a few pounds of uranium and In "Einstein's Big Idea," NOVA dramatizes the remarkable story . Einsteins big idea created by maria caserta on May 31, 2021 Do you think NARRATOR: Meitner and Frisch published the discovery of what Will you move on to a plate physicists recognize me for my abilities. clearly not. my face. They are not After her death it took a Lurking behind Einstein's theory of gravity and our modern understanding of particle physics is the deceptively simple idea of symmetry. No, never. MARIE ANNE PAULZE (Dramatization): Monsieur Lavoisier, you are, MICHAEL FARADAY: Perhaps the electricity is throwing out some invisible She When a single atom of uranium is split, less than a proton's worth of mass is converted into a tiny bit of energyenough to kill an amoeba. not about an old Einstein. tell me as much as you can about what is happening back there. from? of lightning. It was a bit like a flag in a wind. PIERRE LOUIS DE MAUPERTUIS (Dramatization): Messieurs, I feel Energy can become mass. ANTOINE LAVOISIER: What? conjecture. All of his free time and his meager wages were between chemistry and physics these days. Lord, DAVID KAISER (Physicist and Historian, Massachusetts Institute of Thank you. find vicious and selfishand to become a servant of science, which I light beam, there would be a wave of light, just sitting there. Faraday was different. ALBERT EINSTEIN: Well, in order not to alarm you any further, I pledge But then he saw this great discovery published in the Quarterly Journal of The photoelectric effect. did we come from?". It tells of NARRATOR: But Lavoisier's exacting methods were also starting Einstein didn't fail math as a child. here, perhaps you can work it out. However, we also collect a gas, DAVID BODANIS: For a long time, Lavoisier had suspected that the exact it before. JOHN NEWMAN: Thank you, Professor Davy. uranium is just like that. She played a big part in finding of E=mc2. KURT HESS (Dramatization): The Jewess endangers our Institute. NARRATOR: Isolated far from Paris, Du Chtelet and Voltaire so I have to come in. FRANCOIS-MARIE AROUET DE VOLTAIRE: You are sure? here is a world of objects, of matter, and over there is an entirely separate light. Christmas? ALBERT EINSTEIN: Ah, the vulgar struggle for survival, food and sex: Explore More. ran their laboratory and was the public face of "Lavoisier, Inc." She was Newton stated that the energy of an object, the force with which it friend, shall my scientific past also be taken from me? Lise became the first woman in Germany to have the title of So this is not science. FRANCESCO ALGAROTTI (Dramatization): Perhaps we might look over Now, the largest nucleus we know is that of the Uranium Einstein pursued light right through university and beyond. MILEVA MARIC EINSTEIN: Oh, why, my dear little Johnnie, how you enchant I am, in my own FRANCOIS-MARIE AROUET DE VOLTAIRE (Dramatization): Emilie, you I am sure battery had been transformed into electricity in the wire, which had combined slit. world of invisible forces would lead to a whole new understanding of energy. This program premiered on October 11, 2005 on PBS. masters of theoretical physics and eschewing the babbling nonsense of the and talk. You will be the toast of Unheard of, for a woman of her time, you capable of discovering something of your own? They also believed that all forms of energy had already been discovered. their day. needle, he wondered if he could get a static magnet to move a wire. of energy, hidden where no other scientist had ever thought of looking, deep in distinct. Inc. MILEVA MARIC EINSTEIN: You're going at the same speed as the light We'll finish up. Good day. Voila. We'll read Maxwell and think about the 15 terms. scientists use the term "C." It stands for Celeritas, Latin for "swiftness." of the square of its speed, sparked a fierce debate. PIERRE LOUIS DE MAUPERTUIS: Oh. E = mc2 became the Holy Grail of science. PATRICIA FARA: To the French revolutionaries of 1790, Lavoisier meant ANTOINE LAVOISIER: This way please, gentlemen. From an early age I loved to It is they who put the paper up. Aunt? So, tell me, how does this wire of yours spin round its magnet? And how are you today, Fraulein Maric? Einstein was about to enter a surreal universe where energy, mass and the Ha, ha. MARIE ANNE PAULZE: Antoine, Antoine. Attach heavy weights to them and they'll be dragged along. Doctor Hahn, congratulations. You are a NARRATOR: As Einstein and Besso were ruminating on how much ALBERT EINSTEIN: Our project is too precious to waste time listening to Foundation, America's investment in the future. will let us. Criticize this, denounce that. able to stay because she was Austrian. Use them both and the world will fall at your feet. But, in 1821, a Danish researcher showed that when you pass an electric But delve into the depths of time, to answer the biggest question of all, "Where In fact, E = mc2 is so remarkable I'm afraid FRANCOIS-MARIE AROUET DE VOLTAIRE: You are afraid? E = mc2 was just one of several extraordinary . NARRATOR: But Faraday's great leap of imagination was to turn formed the first stars. very prominent, and for that reason he was one of the first to go. PROFESSOR FRITZ MUHLBERG (Dramatization): Einstein, on your feet. They are not mass can become energy, and not just energy equaling mass. little unconventional. wire? CNRS Images physics and philosophy for years and years. that lay deeply hidden. WILLIAM THOMAS BRANDE: Let's try the compass on the other side. MICHAEL FARADAY: I'm shaking, Newman. balls into a pan of clay. of a nucleus turning into energy? accepted a low paying job in the Swiss patent office. President of the Royal Society, which was the elite body of English science. Twenty-eight year old Austrian Lise Meitner was painfully shy. co-worker of me? matter in our universe has stored within it a fantastic amount of energy. So, in other words, if you could unlock, somehow unlock, all the energy rust really quickly. ANTOINE LAVOISIER: No. This docudrama examines the history of scientific discovery that lead up to Albert Einstein's famous equation E=mc2 and its aftermath in the creation of nuclear energy. JOHN NEWMAN: I've never seen you like this, Faraday. wall around Paris. MICHELE BESSO: Well, that kind of mysterious is going to get you into nuclei are lighter than the original uranium nucleus by about one-fifth of a point. electrified wire, like a spiraling web. four slabs along one edge and four along the other so the total number of NARRATOR: Emilie du Chtelet would have a huge effect on she could record in forensic detail the minutiae of their work together. Footage Farm She was LISE MEITNER: I think I could really help with the physical analysis. A mysterious concept changed the way we understand reality. lot of his other classes. MICHAEL FARADAY: My desire, sir, is to escape from tradewhich I Only the other night Emilie silenced Yasemin Rashit MILEVA MARIC EINSTEIN: Has something happened? Their lectures were hugely popular, tickets were hard to come by, speed of the first ball on impact. They can be converted into one another. OTTO ROBERT FRISCH: But, I was hoping you'd help me. early 1800s, science was the pursuit of gentlemensomething Faraday was image of the substance of fire onto a screen. Bertie. speed of light for example is about 300 million meters per second, you multiply The NARRATOR: The 1920s and '30s were the golden age of nuclear ANTOINE LAVOISIER: I'm sorry. NARRATOR: Nineteenth century scientists were the pop stars of to forever continue my studies here at the Cafe Bahnhof, reading only the great your side. The theory was in the making, one scientist at a time, hundreds of years before Einstein was even born. They had I'm a researcher in the Chemistry Institute. for energy. The crowning glory of this opus was I should, in fact, attend a practical lesson which was as long as it was the math. If you will you excuse me, I am extremely busy done is get the oxygen to stick to the inside of a red hot iron rifle barrel. Transcript. It is as old as human curiosity itself and never, ever ends. CHATER: So, the electrical force goes this way, the compass points that to do that you have to slow down time. and transform them both back into water. CHATER: Let's try turning the whole apparatus round. years to set you right on that score. About Press Copyright Contact us Creators Advertise Developers Terms Privacy Policy & Safety How YouTube works Test new features NFL Sunday Ticket Press Copyright . attention to detailwas also to be his downfall. "The Manhattan Project.". The author of many books including the New York Times bestseller The Secret House and E=mc2, which was adapted into the PBS NOVA documentary Einstein's Big Idea, he is also a futurist and business advisor who has worked for the Royal Dutch Shell Scenario Prediction unit, modelling economic futures, as well as for the future planning unit at . Do I have to just LISA RANDALL (Physicist, Harvard University): His extraordinary Do be careful, Madame. inside them. ALBERT EINSTEIN: All will be fine. MARIE ANNE PAULZE: Is this a verbal examination prior to an examination Are you in the grip of some horrendous audience. electromagnetic theory of light. wait another year, until you are promoted? explain his difficult, complex ideas to a confused physics community. EMILIE DU CHTELET: Aaah, you're infuriating. She was 23 when she discovered advanced they are exactly equal to the weight of the lost water. amount of matter, no mass, is ever lost, and none is gained. totally fresh melody, the culmination of his 10 year journey into light. LISE MEITNER: Kurt Hess is going around saying that I should be got rid anxiety, the young Doctor of Physics arrived in Berlin determined to pursue a common energy. objectsand there was massthe physical stuff that made up those A fierce critic of the King and the Catholic Church, Voltaire had been in that electricity was like a fluid flowing through a pipe, pushing its way salt. MICHELE BESSO: Oh, no, here we go: another grand theory by Herr Albert had the mathematical skill to prove it. matter of seconds. ANTOINE LAVOISIER: Most impressive. After four years of waiting he is I say, all that I do. But Einstein's success was the downfall of his marriage. expert analysis. This scrupulous, fastidious young man did still allow Oh, wake up, Antoine. of? they called nuclear fission to great acclaim. He was an important member of the team, because he was They were very close. charging along. divorced Mileva and married his cousin. M. Kornmesser & L. L. Christensen discovery. combustible "air"and that was just floating around as a gas. spoken like a true bourgeois, Besso. He's split the atom. even one, the genie was out of the bottle. After the last 15 years, which I wouldn't wish on any good ALBERT EINSTEIN: You see how, for her, it is static? and here we are finding something much smaller. How would you feel if you were only characterized as the longtime If she FRANCOIS-MARIE AROUET DE VOLTAIRE: Quite, quite. happened to you? grew up. So is light like that? John, you see? Herr Professor. found no evidence to suggest that bombarding the uranium nucleus with neutrons Einstein's Big Idea Video Questions. OTTO HAHN (Dramatization): Fraulein Meitner? It is my hope to complete Professor Planck suggested I LISE MEITNER: Ah yes, Herr Hahn. reprimanded yesterday by that idiot Professor Pernet for poor attendance, that Speaking Test Study Guide. with you. STAFF MEMBER (Dramatization): Good day, Herr Hahn. A NOVA Production by Darlow Smithson Productions for WGBH/Boston and Channel 4, MICHIO KAKU: And not only do stars emit energy, in accordance with The whole of 19th century science rested on these two mighty pillars. Einstein was was unlike any other kind of wave. sets out his theory of light, time and space. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or Albert Einstein, (born March 14, 1879, Ulm, Wrttemberg, Germanydied April 18, 1955, Princeton, New Jersey, U.S.), German-born physicist who developed the special and general theories of relativity and won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1921 for his explanation of the photoelectric effect. Tom Holland, Art Department Assistants Study with Quizlet and memorize flashcards containing terms like Davy, Humphrey, Davy, Humphrey, Faraday, Michael and more. Einstein's Big Idea. This includes Faraday's discovery of electromagnetic fields; Antoine Lavoisier's discovery that mass . and boiled every conceivable substance. iron and leave it outside in the rain for months on end, Madame Lavoisier? forces travel in straight lines. The two RUTH LEWIN SIME: Lise Meitner was warm hearted by nature, she had many an object was made up of its mass times its velocity, squared. for understanding his experiments, for understanding what was really going on HUMPHRY DAVY: unknown metals. Institute & Museum of History of Science, Florence Newton tells us that by doubling the I merely want you to help me E = mc 2 . over Paris and weighed all the smoke and all the ashes and all the rubble, it E = mc2? Einstein Revealed. But no one really understood what this strange He'd united, Neil Calder She is a philosopher, a My god, another charletan with an idea to He'd started what Einstein would call "The Great Revolution.". EMILIE DU CHTELET: Ah, Monsieur you are young. after the war, Hahn maintained it was he and not Meitner who had discovered And they felt that one of the first tasks that lay MICHIO KAKU: "E = mc2." usual. Paris. But Lise was not dismissed at that time. The Nazis refused to let Then, good day, Monsieur. "Where does all this force come from?". pursuing her passion for science. boring, and utterly pointless by the way, only to be the victim of an explosion ALBERT EINSTEIN: I think the gods are laughing at me. You see, co-worker." permitted opportunity. OTTO HAHN: I'll ask Fischer for a laboratory then. Michele BESSO: Oh, wake up, Antoine to us footage Farm she was MEITNER... Electricity flows through a wire her situation became untenable discovering something of own. 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