About this season
Speciale Superquark was a spin off of the Superquark show, conceived and conducted by Piero Angela
Episodes (6)
1. L'incredibile storia di Enrico Fermi
Aired 18 September 2001 • 129 min
On the occasion of the centenary of his birth, in 2001, Superquark dedicated a special episode of the program to Enrico Fermi, in two parts. Mixing excerpts from films and documentary narration, the program retraces Fermi's origins and his studies that took him, very young, to the Scuola Normale di Pisa. It talks about the fertile period of "I ragazzi di Via Panisperna" in Rome when together with Rasetti, Amaldi, Segré, Majorana, D'Agostino and Pontecorvo he worked on reactions produced by atomic nuclei by the action of slow neutrons. Explores the group's relations with the fascist regime and the mysterious disappearance of Majorana; shows some laboratory instruments used by Fermi in the 1930s; talks about his departure for the USA, the awarding of the Nobel Prize in 1938 and the work of building the atomic pile, with the first nuclear chain reaction on 2 December 1942.
2. Umberto Nobile. La tenda rossa: SOS dal polo nord (prima parte)
Aired 26 December 2001
3. Umberto Nobile. La tenda rossa: SOS dal polo nord (seconda parte)
Aired 2 January 2002
4. Nove mesi. Come nasce la vita
Aired 10 January 2001
5. Da zero a tre anni. Come nasce l'intelligenza
Aired 17 January 2001
6. C'era una volta... cento anni fa
Aired 26 January 2001