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Chemistry

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 -The discovery of fullerenes

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  • Originally Aired January 19, 2005
  • Runtime 45 minutes
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