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Democritus (460 BC)
- Atoms are industructible, atoms are solid but invisible.
- oberrservations and natural curiosity.
- something smooth.
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Dalton
- Elements consisted of tiiny particles called atoms.
- Meteorological observations.
- sphere embeded with electrons.
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Thomson
- the dectron
- expirements designed to study the nature of electric discharge in a high vaccum cathode.
- plum pudding.