Synopsis
From Galileo to Einstein, from Faraday to Mendel: modern scientists try to recreate the seminal experiments from scientific history, and we try to get inside the minds of the people who created them.
- Programme: The Six Experiments That Changed The World
- Episode: 4: Faraday's Doughnut
- Channel: Channel 4
- Broadcast year: 2000
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