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Experiments that Changed the World Episodes

  1.

    Otto Hahn's Nuclear Power

    First broadcast in 2000. Nuclear fission and the foundation for nuclear power

  2. Louis Pasteur's Milk

    He discovered the principles of micro-organisms and bacteria

  3. William Beaumont's Stomach Ache

    A look at the tube that goes from one end of our body to the other

  4. Wilhelm Rontgen's Skeleton

    X-rays allow doctors to see inside the human body

  5. Nikolaas Tinbergen's Basic Instincts

    The study of animal behaviour was developed by Nikolaas Tinbergen

  6. Joseph Priestley's Soda Water

    Did you know two mice discovered oxygen?

  7. Galileo's Acceleration Experiment

    Galileo famously disproved Aristotle's theory on motion

  8. Archimedes' Bathtub

    Eureka! is famously attributed to Archimedes