1948
General Records of the Department of Energy
National Archives Identifier: 88106
Produced by United World Films for the J. Arthur Rank Organization, Ltd., this film discusses the history and development of atomic energy, stressing nuclear physics. Michael Faraday’s early experiments in electrolysis, Dmitri Mendeleev’s periodic table, and early concepts regarding atoms and molecules are also discussed. The film presents research tools of nuclear physics, explains the work of Frédéric Joliot-Curie and James Chadwick in the discovery of the neutron and the splitting of the lithium atom by John Cockcroft and Ernest Walton. Albert Einstein is shown as he told how their work illustrated his theory of equivalence of mass and energy. Featured scientests include J. J. Thomson, Ernest Rutherford, J. D. Cockcroft, and O. R. Frisch.
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