Men who changed the world, part 6: gravitation revisited
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Description
Originally broadcast as a segment of the television program Johns Hopkins File 7 on February 8, 1959 from the studios of WJZ in Baltimore, Md. Black and white. Lynn Poole, producer; Ed Fryers, director; James Chimbidis, writer; Ted Jaffee, narrator; produced by WJZ Television Station in Baltimore, Md. for the ABC Television Network. Lynn Poole, presenter. Digitized in 2004.
Abstract
Lynn Poole briefly summarizes the highlights of Albert Einstein's life (1879-1955) with accompanying photos. Actors representing German physicist Max Planck, British scientist Sir Oliver Lodge, and Royal Society member Joseph J. Thompson comment on the progress of Einstein's work. Setting the foundation, Newton discovered the Corpuscular Theory of Light, Huygens the Wave Theory of Light, Maxwell and Hertz the Electromagnetic Theory, and Michelson and Morley the experiment using the interferometer to measure the speed of earth through "ether." From this evolved Einstein's 1905 "Special Theory of Relativity" (E=MC2) proving that all motion is relative and that light travels at a constant speed. Einstein won the 1921 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on the photoelectric effect; contributed to the theory of Brownian movement, the molecular construction of matter; and conducted research in unified field theory.
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Dates
Date Published
1959-02-08
Publisher
Digital Publisher
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Identifiers
OCLC Number
55057882
Collection Number
COLL-0008
Resources
Resource Type
Moving Image
Extent
00:29:05hh:mm:ss
Contributor
Broadcaster (brd): ABC Television Network
Director (drt): Fryers, Edwin
Narrator (nrt): Jaffee, Ted
Production personnel (prd): Poole, Lynn
Producer (pro): Poole, Lynn
Producer (pro): WJZ-TV (Television station : Baltimore, Md.)
Screenwriter (aus): Chimbidis, James
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Copyright and Use
Copyright Not Evaluated
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Access Rights
Public digital access
Model
Video
Unique ID
205dce26-f022-4f65-84ac-b00dde43c057