Your host, Dr. Brian Cox, calls Ernest Rutherford the first proper particle physicist. He uses tennis balls to demonstrate what happened when Rutherford's students fired particles at a sheet of gold. Rutherford was able to deduce that...

In the second of fifteen video segments, Dr. Brian Cox explains how subatomic particles were discovered. A mini-clip of Sir J.J. Thomson, the scientist responsible, is included. Modern scientists explain how fundamental the discovery of...

Dr. Brian Cox from the University of Manchester introduces viewers to the history of particle physics. This brief video, one of 15 parts, touches on Mendeleev's first periodic table and how its organization suggested that there were more...