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Episode description: Travels to Paris; Sweden; Cambridge, MA; and New Mexico's Carlsbad Caverns to examine the power of chemical synthesis through metaphors in art and architecture. Features include the sagas of Antoine Lavoisier, who revolutionized the science of chemistry at the time of the French Revolution; Alfred Nobel, who bequeathed his corporate fortune to endow the Nobel Foundation; and Harvard University's Robert Burns Woodward, who is celebrated as the Einstein of synthetic chemistry. [cc]
Series Information: The Nobel Legacy
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- KET1: Saturday, August 28, 1999 at 3:00 pm EDT