Open AccessFinal Scientific/Technical Report to the U.S. Department of Energy on NOVA's Einstein's Big Idea (Project title: E-mc<sup>2</sup>, A Two-Hour Television Program on NOVA)
Author(s) -
Susanne Simpson
Publication year - 2007
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Reports
DOI - 10.2172/910282
Subject(s) - einstein , nova (rocket) , biography , art history , art , physics , engineering , mathematical physics , aeronautics
Executive Summary A woman in the early 1700s who became one of Europe’s leading interpreters of mathematics and a poor bookbinder who became one of the giants of nineteenth-century science are just two of the pioneers whose stories NOVA explored in Einstein’s Big Idea. This two-hour documentary premiered on PBS in October 2005 and is based on the best-selling book by David Bodanis, E=mc2: A Biography of the World’s Most Famous Equation. The film and book chronicle the scientific challenges and discoveries leading up to Einstein’s startling conclusion that mass and energy are one, related by the formula E = mc2