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Known in antiquity as the 'laughing philosopher'. -
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He believed that atoms were uniform, solid, hard, incompressible, and indestructible and that they moved in infinite numbers through empty space until stopped.
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He started teaching at a local school when he was twelve. -
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Millikan was an enthusiastic tennis player, and golf was also one of his recreations.
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Ernest Rutherford demonstrated that there were at least two distinct types of radiation: alpha radiation and beta radiation. -
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He believed that all matter is made of atoms, which are indivisible.
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Niels Bohr was born and raised in Copenhagen.
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Chadwick was knighted in 1945.
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He played the piano. -
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He believed that the atom is mostly empty space, with nearly all of its mass concentrated in a tiny central nucleus.
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He believed that all atoms contain tiny negatively charged subatomic particles or electrons.
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The accurate determination of the charge carried by an electron, using the elegant “falling-drop method”.
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He thought that some physical quantities only take discrete values.
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He proved the existence of neutrons.
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That formulating quantum mechanics in terms of matrices and in discovering the uncertainty principle.
