Moments of Discovery tells the story of three scientific discoveries in the scientists' own words. You can read the text and hear their actual voices.

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The Discovery of Fission was a momentous and complex sequence of events where many famous scientists interacted with each other and the world at large.

A Pulsar Discovery shows the work of a few scientists on a much finer, more personal scale, following moment by moment as an important discovery unfolded.

Superconductivity probes the ways of modern theorists in a story of three people collaborating to solve a famous problem (and win a Nobel Prize).

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Moments of Discovery is produced by the Center for History of Physics