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Mike Brown and Millie Dresselhaus: Exploring the very big and the very small

May 17, 2022
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1
Introduction
00:00 • 5min
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2
Classification Is How We Ask Our Questions
04:58 • 2min
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3
Pluto Is Not a Planet
07:00 • 5min
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4
The Experimentation of the Solar System
12:16 • 3min
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5
Is There a Planet Nine?
15:03 • 5min
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6
E B Motors - A Virtual Parts Garage
19:42 • 3min
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7
Carbon Queen - A Memoir of a Lifetime
22:18 • 4min
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8
Carbonano Tubes and Fullerines
26:23 • 3min
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9
How Hard Was It for You to Be a Woman?
29:38 • 2min
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10
How Did She Get to Chicago?
32:04 • 2min
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11
Yallow and Inrico Fermi - A Memoir
33:54 • 2min
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12
Women's Form at M I T
35:53 • 4min
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Carbon Queen by Maya Winstock
39:46 • 6min
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Mike Brown, the man who demoted Pluto, is now hot on the trail of a new planet 9, much bigger than Earth and way beyond Neptune. And the brilliant career of his fellow Kavli Prize winner, Millie Dresselhaus – the “Queen of Carbon” and pioneer of nanoscience – is remembered by her biographer, Maia Weinstock.

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