Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "reference-to-ernest-rutherford"

1. Assassin's Creed (2016)

PG-13 | 115 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

Callum Lynch explores the memories of his ancestor Aguilar de Nerha and gains the skills of a Master Assassin, before taking on the secret Templar society.

Director: Justin Kurzel | Stars: Michael Fassbender, Marion Cotillard, Jeremy Irons, Brendan Gleeson

Votes: 208,928 | Gross: $54.65M

2. Svengoolie (1995– )
Episode: Creature with the Atom Brain (2020)

Comedy, Drama, Fantasy

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Director: Christopher M. Faulkner | Stars: Rich Koz, Doug Scharf

Votes: 16

3. Curious Droid (2016– )
Episode: How the Atomic Race Was Won (2019)

17 min | Documentary

In addition to the United States, Japan and Nazi Germany had programs to develop nuclear bombs. And America's program, which included Canada, was founded on the United Kingdom's prior work ... See full summary »

Star: Paul Shillito

4. Through the Wormhole (2010–2017)
Episode: What Are We Really Made Of? (2010)

TV-PG | 45 min | Documentary

This program delves deep into the atom to find the ultimate constituents of matter focusing finally on the theoretical Higgs Boson.

Director: Kurt Sayenga | Stars: Morgan Freeman, Jonathan Butterworth, Frank Close, Adam Davison

Votes: 203

5. PBS Space Time (2015– )
Episode: Electroweak Theory and the Origin of the Fundamental Forces (2020)

16 min | Documentary, Talk-Show

Our universe seems pretty complicated. We have a weird zoo of elementary particles, which interact through very different fundamental forces. But some extremely subtle clues in nature have ... See full summary »

Director: Andrew Kornhaber | Star: Matthew O'Dowd

6. Kathy Loves Physics & History (2017– )
Episode: How the 3rd Law of Thermodynamics Made Einstein Famous (2019)

18 min | Documentary, History

In 1927 Walther Nernst convinced respected physics enthusiast Ernest Solvay to convene the world's first international physics conference. Solvey invited the nineteen most brilliant ... See full summary »

Star: Kathy Joseph Balistreri

7. Periodic Videos (2008– )
Episode: Radon - Periodic Table of Videos (2013)

10 min | Documentary

Radon was traditionally obtained by the radioactive decay of radium and was the subject of a fierce competition between Ernest Rutherford and William Ramsay to be the first to isolate it.

Star: Martyn Poliakoff

8. Arvin Ash (2018– )
Episode: Why is the universe QUANTUM? What if it isn't? (2021)

14 min | Documentary

Arvin provides a concise history of the development of quantum theory to demonstrate how necessary quantization is to the existence to the universe as we know it.

Star: Arvin Ash

9. Periodic Videos (2008– )
Episode: Hafnium (new) - Periodic Table of Videos (2023)

14 min | Documentary

Hafnium was a challenge to discover because chemists were unsure if it would be found associated with rare earths or zirconium. Eventually is was found in both but in much higher ... See full summary »

Director: Brady Haran | Stars: Neil Barnes, Brady Haran, Conor Howell-Bennett, Martyn Poliakoff

10. PBS Space Time (2015– )
Episode: Did AI Prove Our Proton Model WRONG? (2023)

17 min | Documentary, Talk-Show

Now that you've finally come to grips with the quantum chromdynamics explanation of the proton comprised of an up, up and a down quark it's time to be confused again. Because sometimes it ... See full summary »

Star: Matthew O'Dowd

11. Welch Labs (2014–2023)
Episode: The Most Dangerous Rock in the World (2023)

13 min | Documentary

The discoveries that lead to an understanding of nuclear radiation and nuclear fission that culminated in a race to build the atomic bomb.

Star: Stephen Welch

12. Kathy Loves Physics & History (2017– )
Episode: Bohr model: Math and Logic of Derivation (2020)

17 min | Documentary, History

Kathy derives Bohr's equation for an electron orbiting a nucleus including simple explanations of the physical implication of each step and the scientists that provided the equations he started with.

Star: Kathy Joseph Balistreri