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The legendary, centuries-old "philosopher's stone" of alchemy was always before our eyes, but it was not found thanks to chemistry. Nuclear physics shows how one atom can transform into another and how some stars are just oversized cores. Grab a radiation suit and prepare to go nuclear.
Presented by Lawrence Weinstein
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00:00 What is nuclear physics?
05:37 Periodic table of nuclear physicists
08:22 Rutherford and Soddy discover the thorium chain
08:54 Alpha, beta and gamma decay at very different rates
09:37 Earth's geology relies on slow decomposition rates
12:06 Marie Curie discovers the thorium atom
12:33 The 20th century was the year of nuclear physics
1:30 p.m. The difference between particle physics and nuclear physics
4:31 p.m. Nuclear waste heads toward the valley of stability
9:30 p.m. The Pauli exclusion principle prevents atoms from becoming ghosts
22:53 The use of fundamental forces in nuclear physics
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