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NOVA; Japan's American Genius
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- Series
- NOVA
- Program
- Japan's American Genius
- Program Number
1414
- Series Description
NOVA is a general-interest documentary series that addresses a single science issue each week. Billed as "science adventures for curious grown-ups" when it first aired in March, 1974, NOVA continues to offer an informative and entertaining approach to a challenging subject. 1996 marked NOVA's 23rd season, which makes it the longest-running science program on national television. It is also one of television's most acclaimed series, having won every major television award, most of them many times over. Premiered March 1974.
- Program Description
Japanese industries are betting that the genius behind the amorphous materials, Detroit inventor Stanford Ovshinsky, is onto something big. His pathbreaking discovery in the 1960s was that amorphous materials -- simple glassy substances-- can serve the same electronic function as hard-to-grow and expensive crystals such as silicon.
- Duration
00:57:54
- Asset Type
Broadcast program
- Media Type
Video
- Subjects
- Energy
- Politics and Government
- Peoples of East Asia
- Peoples of North America
- Physics
- Technology
- Business and Economics
- Genres
- Documentary
- Topics
- Science
- Creators
- Marzynski, Marian (Writer)
- Barnhardt, Kathleen (Producer)
- Apsell, Paula S. (Executive Producer)
- Publication Information
- WGBH Educational Foundation
- Citation
- Chicago: “NOVA; Japan's American Genius,” GBH Archives, accessed July 27, 2024, http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/V_F79F7FF663FD475E8097080B12674197.
- MLA: “NOVA; Japan's American Genius.” GBH Archives. Web. July 27, 2024. <http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/V_F79F7FF663FD475E8097080B12674197>.
- APA: NOVA; Japan's American Genius. Boston, MA: GBH Archives. Retrieved from http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/V_F79F7FF663FD475E8097080B12674197