This leads to a description of the development of the modern atomic theory as a result of the contributions of Democritus, Dalton, Thomson, and Rutherford. Aired 01/03/2002 | Rating NR.

1803: English chemist-physicist John Dalton starts using symbols to represent the atoms of different elements. Dalton, considered the father of modern atomic theory, made a logbook entry that day ...

A common technique in science popularization is to take some modern scientific idea, and connect it to some much earlier notion. The classic example of this is the regular invocation of the ...

Modern physics, and particularly the quantum theory — the discovery of Max Planck, the centennial of whose birth was celebrated last year —has raised a series of very general questions ...

Did you know that the concept of atomic theory was first explored over 2,500 years ago in ancient India? Long before modern science, an Indian sage named Acharya Kanad proposed the idea of ...

Jennifer Rampling traces the evolution of ideas of material essence and indivisibility in the centuries before modern atomic theory. Skip to main content Thank you for visiting nature.com.

MANCHESTER celebrated last week, just a little prematurely, the centenary of John Dalton's atomic theory. It was on September 6, 1803, tnat he drew up in his notebook his first table of weights of ...

Dalton, considered the father of modern atomic theory, made a logbook entry that day titled, "Observations on the Ultimate Particles of Bodies and their Combinations." ...

This article was originally published with the title “ The Atomic Theory and the Development of Modern Chemistry ” in SA Supplements Vol. 56 No. 1438supp (July 1903), p. 23043 doi:10.1038 ...