100 Greatest Discoveries: Chemistry Summary

In 100 Greatest Discoveries: Chemistry. Bill Nye meets with several different chemists who also talk about chemists that have died who discovered many great things. For example, Joesph Priestley initiated the study of chemistry in 1770 with the discovery of oxygen,and Henri Becquerel with the discovery of radioactivity, or Ernest Rutherford with the discovery of the Atom. The video teaches of the discoveries of old and new one's being developed into new things today like nanotechnology. At the beginning you learn about the periodic table of elements. Then you move on to the discovery of Bucky Balls and Bucky Tubes the strongest material when broken down into many fibers and put together.