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Essay Archive - Historical Development of Atomic Structure
Historical Development of Atomic Structure
The idea behind the "atom" goes back to the Ancient Greek society, where
scientists believed that all matter was made of smaller, more fundamental
particles called elements. They called these particles atoms, meaning "not
divisible." Then came the chemists and physicists of the 16th and 17th centuries
who discovered various formulae of various salts and water, hence discovering
the idea of a molecule.
Then, in 1766 was born a man named John Dalton born in England. He is known as
the father of atomic theory because he is the one who made it quantita....
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