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Democritus was a Greek Philosopher who realized that everything was made up of Atoms
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John Dalton was a British scientist who studied Democritus's work and soon then realized that atoms were like hard balls and couldn't be split.
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Albert Einstein was the scientist who proved that atoms were real.
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Ernest Rutherford was a New Zealand scientist that worked in Manchester. He was able to prove that there were small particles inside atoms called Protons, Nuetrons and Electros
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Today atoms are recognized as everything, we also now know that there are even smaller particles in atoms such as Quarks, Neutrinos, Muons and Gluons.