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  • Independent Lens The Atom Smashers (Season 10, Episode 6)
  • PG
    TV Episode | 73 min | Documentary

Independent Lens

The Atom Smashers (Season 10, Episode 6)
PG
TV Episode | 73 min | Documentary
The Atom Smashers chronicles the search for the Higgs boson: a yet-undiscovered subatomic particle that could explain how matter, and therefore life, can exist. To find this "god particle," top physicists at Fermilab use the Tevatron, a ...See moreThe Atom Smashers chronicles the search for the Higgs boson: a yet-undiscovered subatomic particle that could explain how matter, and therefore life, can exist. To find this "god particle," top physicists at Fermilab use the Tevatron, a four-mile-long, forty-year-old particle accelerator buried beneath the Illinois prairie. However, a new, more powerful accelerator at Europe's CERN laboratory looms on the horizon... Part science, part international competition, and part human drama, The Atom Smashers watches its captivating characters in and out of the laboratory as they race along the intersections of politics, culture, and the possibility of the discovery of a lifetime. Written by 137 Films See less
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Directors
Clayton Brown | Monica Long Ross (as Monica Ross)
Composer
Kate Simko
Cinematographer
Stefani Foster
Editors
Clayton Brown | Monica Long Ross (as Monica Ross)
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Status
Edit Released
Updated Nov 25, 2008
Release date
Nov 25, 2008 (United States)
Awards
Series awards
Won 1 Primetime Emmy Award. Another 46 wins & 74 nominations

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Self - Physicist, CDF Experimental Group, Fermilab Self - Physicist, CDF Experimental Group, Fermilab   See fewer
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