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12:00A
Biography
Sir Isaac Newton: The Gravity of Genius
Chronicles the life of the scientific genius who laid the foundations for calculus and defined the laws of gravity, but who lived a lonely and unhappy personal life.
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1:00A
Biography
Alexander Graham Bell: Voice of Invention
The remarkable life story of the man whose driving passion--to enable the deaf to communicate--led to the invention of the telephone. Includes a look at his interest in speed boating and how he saved the "National Geographic" from financial ruin.
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6:00P
2:00A
Biography
Dow and Jones
Fascinating story of Charles Dow and Edward Jones, whose dissimilar geniuses produced the indispensable Dow Jones stock index. Financial gurus Louis Rukeyser, Lou Dobbs, and others discuss the lives of Dow and Jones, and how their index changed the world.
11:00A
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3:00A
Biography
Albert Einstein
A profile of one of the 20th century's most important minds and recognizable faces--his very name a synonym for genius. Born in Germany in 1879, Albert Einstein was a surprisingly poor student, and failed his first entrance exam to the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich. We look at his long road to recognition, his brilliant theories, including relativity, his Nobel Prize in Physics, and his lifelong work for and devotion to international peace and world government.
12:00P
8:00P
4:00A
Story Feature
Einstein
Albert Einstein's revolutionary theory that turned the world upside down might have been dismissed but for a math mistake, a cloudy sky, and the start of World War I.
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Story Feature
The Mystery of Genius
In a 2-hour study of a rare human trait, we learn how to define the seven types of recognized genius, and meet medical experts and geniuses as they measure and demonstrate this largely misunderstood phenomenon.