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The Woman Who Saw Atoms by Pippa Goldschmidt Episodes

    Exposure

    5/5 Etta's travelling is over as she returns to a city on edge after the Allies' departure.

    Focus

    4/5 After fleeing the Nazi annexation of Austria, physicist Etta Blau's career has stalled.

    Flight

    3/5 Etta's discoveries around atomic structure have opened up a world of possibilities.

    Measurement

    2/5 With the men of Vienna at war, the female scientists graduate to the laboratory.

    Observation

    1/5 On the eve of the Anschluss, a Jewish scientist captures an image of a proton.