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Discovery Science Stories: Series 4 Episodes

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  1. Humphry Davy

    4/4 The story of how Humphry Davy discovered laughing gas in 1799.

  2. Lise Meitner

    3/4 How physicist Lise Meitner unlocked the science of the atom bomb that cost Hitler dearly

  3. Maria Merian

    2/4 How a 13-year old girl mapped metamorphosis in the 1600s. Naomi Alderman presents

  4. Alcuin of York

    1/4 Philip Ball dives into the Dark Ages to reveal the author of the river crossing riddle