• Question: Who was the first person to believe that the world was made of atoms?

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      Asked by 242mcsb33 to Alex, Anaïs, Peter, Sarwat, Shreesha on 10 Mar 2015.
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        Alexander Henderson answered on 10 Mar 2015:

        The Ancient Greeks came up with the theory that all matter consisted of many smaller non divisible units ie atoms (the word atom is derived from a Greek word meaning “uncuttable”). It was in the 18th-20th centuries that scientists slowly started proving what an atom was by evidence from experiments.

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        Anaïs Pujol answered on 10 Mar 2015:

        His name is Democritus a greek phylosophe. He came with the theory of the atom and he created the first atomic model, spheric with no electron, proton or neutrons.

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