In Search of Giants with Dr. Brian Cox
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Dr Brian Cox takes us on a journey through the history of particle physics. In Search of Giants is a documentary in which Brian Cox makes particle physics and the quantum world comprehensible.
We learn that the Greeks knew about atoms and how Mendeleyev’s periodic table was among the first clues that the atom had a deeper structure, how J.J. Thomson discovered the fist subatomic particle – the electron, how Ernest Rutherford conducted a historical experiment that revealed that most of the mass of an atom is concentrated in a tiny nucleus made of protons and neutrons, how Murray Gell-Mann predicted the existence of quarks, and more…
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