Unruly Elements (1859-1902)

Overview

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 named Marie Sklodowska Curie discovers radioactivity, revealing that elements can change identities — and that atoms must have undiscovered parts inside them.

Episode Information

Guest Stars

Juliet Rylance

Marie Curie

Michael Aronov

Dmitri Mendeleev

Gene Ravvin

Aleksandr Inostrantsev

Martin Rayner

Eugene-Anatole Demarçay

Sebastian Roché

Pierre Curie