Einstein's Big Idea
The story behind the world's most famous equation, E = mc2
2005 | 120m | English
Popularity: 2 (history)
| Director: | Gary Johnstone |
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| Writer: | Gary Johnstone, David Bodanis |
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| 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. In "Einstein's Big Idea," NOVA dramatizes the remarkable story behind this equation. E = mc2 was just one of several extraordinary breakthroughs that Einstein made in 1905, including the completion of his special theory of relativity, his identification of proof that atoms exist, and his explanation of the nature of light, which would win him the Nobel Prize in Physics. Among Einstein's ideas, E = mc2 is by far the most famous. Yet how many people know what it really means? In a thought-provoking and engrossing docudrama, NOVA illuminates this deceptively simple formula by unraveling the story of how it came to be. | |
| Release Date: | Oct 11, 2005 |
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| Director: | Gary Johnstone |
| Writer: | Gary Johnstone, David Bodanis |
| Genres: | Drama, Documentary |
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| Production Companies | ARTE, Tetra Media, Channel 4 Television, NDR |
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| Name | Character |
|---|---|
| Aidan McArdle | Einstein |
| Anton Lesser | Voltaire |
| Andrew Callaway | Maupertuis |
| Julian Rhind-Tutt | Antoine Lavoisier |
| Shirley Henderson | Mileva Maric |
| Ty Glaser | Marie Anne Lavoisier |
| Andy Crabbe | Habicht |
| Samuel West | Humphry Davy |
| Daniel D'Alessandro | Algarotti |
| Brendan Fleming | Hermann Einstein |
| Gregory Fox-Murphy | Brande |
| Philip Herbert | Count de Amerval |
| Chris Jenkinson | Dr. Haller |
| Wolf Kahler | Horlein |
| George Layton | Emilie’s Father |
| Alex MacQueen | Chater |
| Richard Mulholland | Emilie’s Tutor |
| Stephen Noonan | Marat |
| Christopher Eccleston | Narrator (voice) |
| John Lithgow | Narrator (voice) U.S. edition |
| Steven Robertson | Michael Faraday |
| Christian Rubeck | Otto Hahn |
| Emily Woof | Lise Meitner |
| Ian Duncan | Charles de Breteuil |
| Name | Job |
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| Gary Johnstone | Writer, Director |
| David Bodanis | Writer |
| Nick Justin | First Assistant Director |
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