Human Intelligence
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- Episode
- Manhattan Project: Albert Einstein
- Broadcast Info
- 2025 (14 mins)
- Description
- Albert Einstein was an international pop star of science who urged the US government to build an atom bomb. Naomi Alderman gets into one of the most famous brains of all time. Einstein rewrote our understanding of universe. He imagined hitching a ride on a light beam and pursued his famous ‘thought experiments’ to remarkable ends. He was a man who never swam with the tide. Despite a lifelong commitment to pacifism, in 1939, Einstein signed a letter urging the US government to speed up work on the development of a nuclear bomb. Naomi finds out why.
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The Open University, "Human Intelligence". https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/ou/search/index.php/prog/252614 (Accessed 21 Jun 2026)