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The Mystery of Matter: Search for the Elements

Season 1 Episode 2: Unruly Elements

Over a single weekend in 1869, a young Russian chemistry professor named Dmitri Mendeleev invents the Periodic Table, bringing order to the growing gaggle of elements. But this sense of order is shattered when a Polish graduate student...

Season 1 Episodes:

Episode 1 Out of Thin Air

1. Out of Thin Air

Aired: Aug 19, 2015

One of science's great odd couples--British minister Joseph Priestley and Fre...

Episode 2 Unruly Elements

2. Unruly Elements

Aired: Aug 19, 2015

Over a single weekend in 1869, a young Russian chemistry professor named Dmit...

Episode 3 Into the Atom

3. Into the Atom

Aired: Aug 19, 2015

Caught up in the race to discover the atom's internal parts - and learn how t...

Info about The Mystery of Matter: Search for the Elements

Current Status: Ended

Network: PBS

Production Country: United States

Genres:History, Biography