The high-definition program, explore the incredible life and accomplishments of NASA's Katherine Johnson, nicknamed the "Human Computer." Understand her major contributions to the United States space program as a physicist, space scientist and mathematician and appreciate her remarkable legacy. The program features detailed graphics, diagrams, rare NASA footage, an on-camera interview with Katherine Johnson herself, as well as on-screen, multiple-choice...

Traces the story of forgotten genius Ernest Lawrence and his invention of the cyclotron, which triggered "Big Science" breakthroughs that have rendered science dependent on government and industry.

"Oppenheimer and the Manhattan Project Book: Leadership and the Race for Nuclear Weapons" is a fascinating book that reveals the fascinating story of a physical scientist named Oppenheimer. Accompanying his name is a project that has lost a lot of press coverage, which is the atomic bomb project.Oppenheimer was a man with a genius mind but no leadership ability. Even so, he is still considered a genius leader when leading hundreds of engineers and...

In the fall of 1940, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill ordered a small team of scientists on a clandestine transatlantic mission to deliver his country's most valuable military secret, a revolutionary radar component, not to the U.S. government, but to a mysterious Wall Street tycoon, Alfred Lee Loomis. Using his connections, his money, and his brilliant scientific mind, Loomis and his team of scientists developed radar technology that would...

The Nobel Prize-winning theoretical physicist talks about his adventure-filled life in a memoir based on a series of taped discussions.

From a Pulitzer Prize winning journalist and Los Angeles Times contributor, the untold story of how science went big, built the bombs that helped win World War II, and became dependent on government and industry and the forgotten genius who started it all, Ernest Lawrence.

Franklin, more often viewed as a statesman and founding father, was also a man of science. Among his many inventions, it was the lightning rod--Franlkin's attempt to control the electricity of the heavens--that caused the greatest controversy. In a time where everything from weather to illness was blamed on sin, his device brought questions: "Did humanity have the right to defend itself...? If so, how was such a new insight... to be assimilated [with]...