Link to the Show / Show NotesHistorian and physicist David Kaiser of MIT talks about the past and future of efforts to make an extraordinary chemical element never seen in nature. NOVA scienceNOW airs five Tuesdays a year on PBS and is available for viewing 365 days a year online.
Audio editing by David Levin. Interview with David Kaiser conducted by Vin Liota. Major funding for NOVA scienceNOW is provided by the National Science Foundation and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. Additional funding is provided by the Alfred P. Sloan and Kavli Foundations.
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