NOVA

NOVA

Japan's American Genius (14x16)


Air date: Oct 27, 1987

Is Detroit inventor Stanford Ovshinsky the new Thomas Edison? Japanese industries are betting that the genius behind amorphous materials-a simpler and less expensive alternative to silicon-is onto something big.

  • Premiered: Mar 1974
  • Episodes: 1025
  • Followers: 302
  • Running
  • PBS
  • Wednesday at 21