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Experiments that Changed the World Episodes Available now
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Otto Hahn's Nuclear Power
First broadcast in 2000. Nuclear fission and the foundation for nuclear power
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Louis Pasteur's Milk
He discovered the principles of micro-organisms and bacteria
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Nikolaas Tinbergen's Basic Instincts
The study of animal behaviour was developed by Nikolaas Tinbergen
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Wilhelm Rontgen's Skeleton
X-rays allow doctors to see inside the human body
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William Beaumont's Stomach Ache
A look at the tube that goes from one end of our body to the other
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Joseph Priestley's Soda Water
Did you know two mice discovered oxygen?
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Galileo's Acceleration Experiment
Galileo famously disproved Aristotle's theory on motion
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Archimedes' Bathtub
Eureka! is famously attributed to Archimedes