The Science Channel's 100 Greatest Discoveries Series
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Host and Writer
Bill Nye
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Series Producer and Director
Michael F. Fountain
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Producer
Robyn Bennett
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Series Writer
Michael Angelella
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Writers
Ivan Abel Amato
Tony Black
Christina Reed
Charles Seife
Marica L. Triunfol
Ginger Weingarten
Bob Zimmerman
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Directors of Photography
Tom Inskeep
Jeffrey Saunders
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Editors
Donna Andrade
Laurel Cobble
Ralph Fasano
Don Fish
Bill Davis
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Production Manager
Greta Pittard
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Associate Producer
Jonathan Reich
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Production Coordinator
Christopher Geair
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Gaffers
Josh Spring
Tomo Sasaki
Dave Jackson
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Grips
Cyrus Amini
Tim Gordon
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Sound Recordists
Dennis Towns
Brian Buckley
Ed Fritz
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Assistant Camera Operator
Sarah Brandes
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Temporary Operator
Melony Barton
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Art Department
April Freeman
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Production Assistants
Scott Foster
Justin Dickson
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Recreation Coordination
Historical Entertainment LLC
Kathryn Coombs
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Original Music and Sound Effects
Blue Dot
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Archival Supervisor
Joy Ardizzone
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Post Production Supervisor
Liz Magno Barnes
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Stock Footage Researchers
Steve Droter
Rudy Estrada
Karma Foley
Jeff Gray
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Post Production Facilities
Interface Media Group
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Graphic Design & Animation
Jeff Weingarten
Dave Flood
Frank Rogers
Alex Scott
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Online Editor
Brent Hufnagel
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Assistant Editor
Richard Akerson
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Audio Mixer
Dennis Jacobsen
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Colorist
Richard Pagliaroli
2nd Unit
Director
Drew Vandervelde
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Production Coordinator
Erin Charles
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Make-up and Hair
Jim Choate
Erika Onsager
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Science Advisors
Dinshaw Dadachanji, Ph.D.
Orla Smith
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American Association for the Advancement of Science
Dr. Donald Kennedy
Dr. Alan I. Leshner
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National Science Foundation
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Archival Images
American Institute of Physics Emilio Segrè Visual Archives
Archive Films by Getty Images
Art Resource
Animation created by Drew Berry & produced for DNA Interactive
© 2003, Howard Hughes Medical Institute. All rights Reserved.
Dana Berry
The Burndy Library, Cambridge, Massachusetts
CELLS alive!
CNST/Rice University
Corbis Corporation
Discovery FootageSource
Chris Ewels
Edgar Fahs Smith Collection, University of Pennsylvania Library
European Southern Observatory
The Albert Einstein Archives, The Jewish National & University Library, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
Dr. Gary Gaugler
Hale Observatories, courtesy AIP Emilio Segrè Visual Archives
ImageBank by Getty Images
Infynity Ltd.
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Dr. Gene Kritsky, College of Mount St. Joseph
Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Division
Lotte Jacobi Collection, University of New Hampshire
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
NASA Johnson Space Center
National Archives and Records Administration
National Library of Medicine
Pfizer Inc.
The Regents of the University of California
Bruce J. Russell bioMEDIA ASSOCIATES
San Diego Supercomputer Center, Natalie Rubin & Steve Cutchin
Space Telescope Science Institute
Mark Twain Media Publishers
Victoria & Albert Museum, London/ Art Resources, NY
WGBH Media Libary and Archives
York Films of England
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Special Thanks
Carnegie Museum of Natural History
Joseph Gall - Carnegie Institution of Washington
Owen Gingerich - Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Victoria Harden - National Institutes of Health
Roald Hoffman - Cornell University
Michio Kaku - City College, City University of New York
Phillip Schewe & Spencer R. Weart - American Institute of Physics
Dan Lagiovane
Richard Milner
Montgomery Animal Hospital
Montgomery Youth Hockey
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Produced by thinkfilm, inc. for The Science Channel
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Executive Producer
Joseph Aloysius Becker
For The Science Channel:
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Executive in Charge of Production
Steve Burns
Coordinating Producer
Wyatt Channell
Production Manager
Lori Beane
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