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Democritus
Came up with the Idea that atoms are Indivisable. He came up with the Idea by blending two schools of thought, one by Heraclitus, who thought that the basic characteristic of nature is change. And Parmenides, who thought that change is an illusion and that all the world is made up by a single unforming mass that is an illusion. Interesting Fact Learned ways of Eastern Culture from a Scholar in the Prince of Persia's Court, Prince is called Xerxes. |
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Joseph Proust
Came up with the Law of Definite Mass, also called Proust's Law. The Law states that when elemants are combined, they have the same proportion of mass before and after they combine. Interesting Fact Started as A Chemistry Teacher |
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Antoine Lavosier
French Nobleman, called the Father of Modern Chemistry, created the theory we know as Law of Conservation of Mass, which states that the mass of an object will stay the same no matter what changes it may go through. Interesting Fact At age 28 he married a 13 year old girl by the name of Marie-Anne Pierrette Paulze. |
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John Dalton
Dalton Was a middle class englishman who pioneered the idea of "The Law of Multiple Proportions". Which stated that if elements combine, they do so in small whole numbers. Interesting Fact Dalton was one of the first scientists to really research into treatments and causes of Color Blindness. |
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J.J Thomson
English Gentleman who is credited to have discovered Electrons and Isotopes. He also created the tool we know as the Mass Spectrometer. Also Created the "Plum Pudding" Atom Model. Most Famous Experiment is called "Cathode Ray Experiment" Interesting Fact Originally Wanted to Be an Engineer |
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Robert Millikan
American Physicist, discovered that the Charge of an Electron is Negative. Also a major contributor to the Photoelectric Effect theory. Major Experiment is called the "Oil Drop Experiment" Interesting Fact Helped Create Anti Sumbmarine devices in WW1 |
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Ernest Rutherford
New Zealand Physicist who is known to be the father of nuclear physics. He was one of the major contributors in the theories about the organisation inside atoms. Most Famous Experiment is called "Gold Foil Experiment" Interesting Fact Helped Form the group of Scientists to create the Manhattan Project |
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Niels Bohr
Danish Physicist who first discovered that the path of electrons can only move in set paths around the nucleus. Created the Shell model of the Atom. Interesting Fact Worked on the Manhattan Project. |
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