The theory of the atom dates at least as far back as 440 B.C. to Democritus, a Greek scientist and philosopher. ... Rutherford's model of the atom is still the basic model that is used today.

Since the Rutherford model of the atom is now 100 years old, ... Democritus said that if you keep breaking it down, you would get to a size that could no longer be broken.

Four hundred years before the birth of Christ, the renowned Greek philosopher, Democritus, suggested that all matter is composed of tiny, discrete, indivisible particles. Resources.

God and the Atom: From Democritus to the Higgs Boson: The Story of a Triumphant Idea Victor J. Stenger. Prometheus, $25 (300p) ISBN 978-1-61614-753-2 ...

From Democritus to Einstein, the long search for the tiny atom Their existence was posited 2,500 years ago, and they were thought to be ‘indivisible’ Cormac O'Raifeartaigh ...

But when it comes to the word atom, we have to go to ancient Greece of 400 B.C. And there was a brilliant philosopher named Democritus, and he proposed the Greek word atomos, which means uncuttable.

The ancient Greek philosopher Democritus theorized the existence of atoms by wondering what would happen if you cut an apple into smaller and smaller pieces until you reached a point where the ...

IT is the epic of the successive dynasties of the atom that Mr. Gregory sets himself to recount in his very interesting book. From Democritus, who was the first to discuss atoms, down to the ...

Democritus was born in Abdera in Northern Greece and wrote on ethics, physics, mathematics, literature and language. After Leucippus and Democritus nothing significant was added to the atomic theory.