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A series of thirteen 10-minute episodes on a dozen of the most remarkable stories to emerge during the first 100 years of the Nobel Prize. The greatest scientific advances in physics, chemistry, physiology and medicine - rarely the work of a single Nobel laureate, but a brilliant progression, prizewinner building on prizewinner, ideas spawning ideas. Twelve of Nobel's greatest hits - plus the story of Alfred Nobel himself and the august institution he bequeathed the world.
130 minutes 2001 PAL VHS tape, DVD
Cost (13 episodes/VHS only): £100.00 + VAT
The story of radioactivity - from its discovery by three French Nobel Prizewinners to its application in the atomic bomb and the generation of nuclear electricity. As a force for good, radioactivity helps in medicine, archaeology and space exploration. But it has a down side - such as the problem of disposing spent nuclear fuel and the disaster at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in 1986.
10 minutes 2001 PAL VHS tape, DVD
Cost: £15.00 + VAT
Everything is built of atoms - liquids, gases and solids. But of what are atoms built? This progranne considers the inner world of protons, neutrons and electrons unlocked by Nobel Prizewinners such as Ernest Rutherford, Niels Bohr and James Chadwick. From the atom-smasher and the discovery of anti-matter to today's classification of sub-atomic particles into quarks and anti-quarks, bosons and leptons.
10 minutes 2001 PAL VHS tape, DVD
Cost: £15.00 + VAT
This episode considers the 92 elements that pervade the cosmos, and where and how they were conceived. The programme looks at how matter was formed in a particle soup when the Universe was less than one second old; how stars produce energy; how heavy elements like iron are born in super-massive stars.
10 minutes 2001 PAL VHS tape, DVD
Cost: £15.00 + VAT
The discovery that electricity flows with little or no resistance at ultra-low temperatures is looked at in this video. This prompted a string of Nobel laureates to hunt for superconductors that can deliver cheap electricity. The science of superconductivity and properties of superconductors are considered.
10 minutes 2001 PAL VHS tape, DVD
Cost: £15.00 + VAT
Occasionally, a single powerful innovation - unconnected to the work of other laureates - promts a Nobel Prize. These are three such stories looked at in this episode: Sweden's Gustav Dalén made sea-faring safer by developing the automated lighthouse; Finland's Artturi Virtenen found the chemical tricks of silage-making to feed cattle through the winter with sweet-tasting forage; and Switzerland's Paul Müller discovered the insecticidal properties of DDT.
10 minutes 2001 PAL VHS tape, DVD
Cost: £15.00 + VAT
Quantum mechanics, the measurement and workings of the smallest entities, is so strange it took years to gain acceptance. Following the work of the Nobel Prizewinners Max Planck, Albert Einstein, Neils Bohr, Erwin Schrödinger and Carl Heisenberg, this video explains how light is composed of small packets of energy called quanta; how waves can be particles, and particles can be waves at the smae time; and how, on the atomic scale, The Uncertainty Principle means everyday experience no longer applies.
10 minutes 2001 PAL VHS tape, DVD
Cost: £15.00 + VAT
This episode looks at the work and legacy of Alfred Bernhard Nobel, the world's most famous Swede, and founder of the world's most famous prize. Nobel, who invented dynamite and became dismayed at its use in war, compensated the world by bequeathing the Nobel Prize to reward the best in science, literature and peace. The prizes reflect the passions of Nobel; a man who combined the penetrating mind of a true scientist and inventor, with the ambitious dynamism of a great industrialist.
10 minutes 2001 PAL VHS tape, DVD
Cost: £15.00 + VAT
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