Lauren Aguirre, Executive Editor
Ilsa Dohmen, Intern
Brenden Kootsey, Senior Web Developer
Lexi Krock, Associate Editor
David Levin, Editorial Assistant
Susan K. Lewis, Editor
Sonali Patel, Designer
Peter Tyson, Editor in Chief
Anya Vinokour, Senior Designer
Special Thanks
Michael Kelsey, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
John Rigden, Washington University in St. Louis
George Stephans, MIT
John Essick, Reed College
Photo and Image Credits
Einstein's Big Idea homepage
Photo: (Einstein in 1905) © Bettmann/Corbis Images
The Legacy of E = mc2
Photos: (E = mc2 on blackboard) © Jose Antonio
Santiso/iStockphoto; (walnut) © Pierre Janssen/iStockphoto; (PET scan)
© Roger Ressmeyer/CORBIS; (hand/sun) © Heather Ringler/iStockphoto;
(Monet's water lilies) © Philadelphia Museum of Art/CORBIS;
(Einstein audio) Courtesy of American Institute of Physics, © J. Arthur Rank Organization, Ltd., 1948; (Einstein photo in audio popup) © Bettmann/CORBIS
The Producer's Story
Photos: (Albert Einstein/Pablo Picasso) © Bettmann/CORBIS; (men on
platform, Einstein and Mileva, crew in café, Gary Johnstone) Judy Goldhill, © WGBH/NOVA
The Equation Today
Photos: (Stephon Alexander) Courtesy Stephon Alexander; (space) © NASA
(Michael Kelsey, accelerator) Courtesy SLAC; (Caolionn O'Connell, SLAC
overhead) Courtesy SLAC
Einstein The Nobody
Photos: (Einstein at lectern) © Corbis, (Einstein as a boy, Einstein in
1905) © Bettmann/Corbis Images; (David Bodanis) Courtesy David Bodanis
The Theory Behind the Equation
Photos: (Isaac Newton) Courtesy of the Trustees of the Portsmouth Estate;
(James Clerk Maxwell) public domain; (Einstein in patent office) ©
Einstein Archives, Hebrew University of Jerusalem; (Bern clock tower) ©
Underwood & Underwood/CORBIS; (Annalen der Physik cover) Courtesy
© 2005 Wiley-VCH, Germany; (1911 conference) © Hulton-Deutsch
Collection/CORBIS; (E = mc2 manuscript) ©
Einstein Archives, Hebrew University of Jerusalem; (Michio Kaku) Courtesy
Michio Kaku
Genius Among Geniuses
Photos: (Isaac Newton engraving) Courtesy Wikipedia.org; (Albert Einstein)
Courtesy Yousuf Karsh/Library and Archives Canada; (Max Planck) Courtesy
Clendening History of Medicine Library, University of Kansas Medical Center;
(Niels Bohr) Courtesy Wikipedia.org; (Marie Curie) Courtesy Library of
Congress; (Satyendranath Bose) Courtesy MacTutor History of Mathematics
Archive, University of St. Andrews, Scotland; (Elegant Universe Web
page) © WGBH/NOVA; (Thomas Levenson) Courtesy Thomas Levenson
Relativity and the Cosmos
Photos: (Einstein) © Bettmann/Corbis Images; (swirling gas disk) Courtesy
AURA/STSCI/NASA; (distant galaxies) Courtesy AURA/STSCI/NASA; Images: (Einstein
animation still) animation by S. Raciti, © WGBH/NOVA
The Power of Tiny Things
Photos: (atomic explosion) Courtesy U.S. Department of Energy; (paper clip, New
York skyline, light bulb) © iStockphoto; (uranium ore, lump of coal)
Courtesy USGS/House Subcommittee on Energy and Natural Resources; (amoeba)
Courtesy Dr. Ralf Wagner/Wikimedia Commons; (Earth and sun from space) Courtesy
NASA; (solar flares, space shuttle launch) Courtesy NASA/JPL; (penny) Courtesy
U.S. Mint; (Einstein's house) Courtesy Dr. Y. S. Kim; (Earth from space)
Courtesy NASA; (flea) Courtesy Wikimedia.org
E = mc2 Explained
Photos:
(Nima Arkani-Hamed) Courtesy Nima Arkani-Hamed; (Janet Conrad) Courtesy Janet
Conrad; (Sheldon Glashow) © Boston University; (Brian Greene) ©
Andrea Cross; (Alan Guth) Courtesy Alan Guth; (Tim Halpin-Healy)
Courtesy Tim Halpin-Healy; (Lene Hau) Courtesy Kris Snibbe/Harvard
News Office; (Michio Kaku) Courtesy Michio Kaku; (Neil deGrasse Tyson)
© Harry Heliotis; (Frank Wilczek) Courtesy Frank Wilczek
Ancestors of E = mc2
Photos: (Michael Faraday portrait) Courtesy Wikipedia.org; (Faraday's
apparatus) © DK Limited/Corbis Images; (iron filings) Courtesy NASA;
(Robert Recorde portrait) Courtesy MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive,
University of St. Andrews, Scotland; (Antoine Lavoisier portrait) ©
Archivo Iconografico, S.A./Corbis Images; (rusty gears) © iStockphoto.com;
(guillotine) © Stefano Bianchetti/Corbis Images; (Ole Roemer portrait)
Courtesy Rundetaarn; (Giovanni Cassini portrait) Courtesy MacTutor History of
Mathematics Archive, University of St. Andrews, Scotland; (Io and Jupiter)
Courtesy NASA/JPL; (Emilie du Châtelet portrait) Courtesy Wikipedia.org;
(Voltaire portrait) Courtesy Wikimedia Commons; (du Châtelet diagrams)
Courtesy University of Hamburg; Image: ("equals" graphic) © WGBH/NOVA
Einstein Quotes
Photo: (Albert Einstein) public domain
The Light Stuff
Photo: (still life in kitchen) Márta Fodor, © WGBH/NOVA
Einstein Time Line
Photos: (compass) © WGBH/NOVA; (Mileva Maric) © Albert
Einstein Gesellschaft; (Einstein at blackboard) Courtesy Hebrew University of
Jerusalem; (solar eclipse) © WGBH/NOVA; Image: (atom graphic) ©
WGBH/NOVA
TV Program Description
(Aidan McArdle as Einstein) © WGBH/NOVA
Library Guide
Photos: Front cover: Albert Einstein (Aidan McArdle) by Rob Kennard,
Emilie du Châtelet (Hélène de Fougerolles) by Eric Giardot,
Michael Faraday (Stephen Robertson) by Judy Goldhill;
Page 1: Eric Giardot; Page 4: Judy Goldhill; Back cover: Judy Goldhill.
All photos © 2005 WGBH.
Illustrations: © 2005 Hannah Bonner.
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Narrated by
John Lithgow
Based on the book
E=mc2 : A Biography of the World's Most Famous Equation
by David Bodanis
Written, Produced and Directed by
Gary Johnstone
Director of Photography
Christopher Titus King
Film Editor
Rick Aplin
Line Producer
Vanessa Tovell
Composer
Michael J McEvoy
Production Designer
Judith Stanley Smith
Make Up & Costume Designer
Erika Okvist
Casting Director
Sarah Trevis
Head of Operations
Ulla Streib
Executive Producer for Darlow Smithson Productions
John Smithson
Cast (in order of Appearance)
Albert Einstein
Aidan McArdle
Mileva Maric
Shirley Henderson
Michael Faraday
Steven Robertson
Brande
Gregory Fox-Murphy
Chater
Alex Macqueen
Humphry Davy
Sam West
Newman
Robert Styles
Hermann Einstein
Brendan Fleming
Proffesseur Fritz Muhlberg
Mike Sarne
Marie Anne Lavoisier
Ty Glaser
Antoine Lavoisier
Julian Rhind-Tutt
Count de Amerval
Philip Herbert
Baroness de la Garde
Di Trevis
Marat
Stephen Noonan
Manson
James Tovell
Besso
Rowan Schlosberg
Maxwell
Richard Hansell
Emilie du Châtelet
Hélène de Fougerolles
Charles de Breteuil
Ian Duncan
Emilie's Tutor
Richard Mulholland
Emilie's Father
George Layton
Voltaire
Anton Lesser
Algarotti
Daniel D'Alessandro
Maupertuis
Andrew Callaway
Dr. Haller
Chris Jenkinson
Habicht
Andrew Crabb
Lise Meitner
Emily Woof
Otto Hahn
Christian Pedersen
Strassman
Michael Mueller
Horlein
Wolf Kahler
Robert Frisch
Simon Tcherniak
Voice Coach
Julia Wilson-Dickson
Production Manager
Josh Pitt
1st Assistant Director
Nick Justin
2nd Assistant Director
Alex Gibb
Production Coordinator
Claire McLeary
Production Secretary
Frances Casey
Casting Assistant
Tammy Kempinski
Location Managers
Harry Ponsonby
Malcolm D. Y. Treen
Archive Researcher
Paul Gardner
Associate Producer
Stefanie Kern
Research
Tes Asfaw
3rd Assistant Director
Grisha Nikolsky
Production Runners
Freddie Crichton Stuart
Tom Holland
Focus Puller
Nic Lawson
Assistant Camera
Tom Legge
Simon Surtees
Key Grip
Rob Gilman
Steadicam
John Hembrough
Gaffer
Nick Green
Electricians
Steve Hudson
Colin Thwaites
Sound Recordist
Freddie Claire
Boom Operator
Rob Manning
Art Director
Gerard Bryan
Standby Art Director
Toby Riches
Construction Manager
Laurence Maskell
Art Department Assistants
Roddy Dolan
Yasemin Rashit
Carl Doherty
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Costume Supervisor
Jane Fox
Costume Assistants
Maria Papandreas
Laura Wair
Make Up Supervisor
Corinne Robinson
Make Up Artists
Amy Moorcraft
Helen Eames
Post Production Supervisor
Richard Gillespie
Colorist
Jet Omoshebi
Audio Mix
Graham Kirkman
Graphics
Framestore
Additional Advisors
Vera Rubin
Christopher J. Chiaverina
C.W. Francis Everitt
With Thanks to
Robert Krulwich
Arthur Donovan
SLAC (Stanford Linear Accelerator Center)
Neil Calder
Stephon Alexander
Caolionn O'Connell
Michael Kelsey
Adélaïde & Yves Bataillon Debès, Chateau Cirey
Louise Productions, Switzerland
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Centre national de la cinématographie
Commissariat à l' Energie Atomique (CEA)
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Ministère des Affaires Etrangères
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rights(TM)/© of The Hebrew University of
Jerusalem, used under license. Represented by The Roger Richman Agency,
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French Crew
Production Manager
Marc-Andre Brunet
Production Co-Ordinator
Jill Coulon
Unit Manager
Ronald Brault
Researcher
Laurence Uebersfeld
Prop Master
Caroline Lebeau
Driver
Emmanuel Kuster
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Production Manager
Heinz Dill
Location Manager
Ashi Michel
Prop Master
HP Michel
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Researcher
David Condon
Production Assistant
Anna Lee Strachan
Steadicam
James Reid
Gaffer
Charles Griswold
Electrician
Brent Cyr
Stylist
Pauline Barry
Executive Producer For Channel 4
Simon Andreae
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Hélène Coldefy
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Christine Le Goff
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Dara Bourne
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Jonathan Renes
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Barbara Moran
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Linda Callahan
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Lola Norman-Salako
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Legal Counsel
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Alex Kreuter
Associate Producers, Post Production
Nathan Gunner
Patrick Carey
Post Production Supervisor
Regina O'Toole
Post Production Editor
Rebecca Nieto
Post Production Manager
Maureen Barden Lynch
Supervising Producer
Stephen Sweigart
Coordinating Producer
Laurie Cahalane
Senior Science Editor
Evan Hadingham
Producer, Special Projects
Susanne Simpson
Senior Series Producer
Melanie Wallace
Managing Director
Alan Ritsko
Senior Executive Producer
Paula S. Apsell
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