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Democritus Research Paper

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Democritus’s main contribution to the atomic theory is that he was the man who asked how many times matter can be broken down. Living from around 460 to 370 BCE, this question was not thought of much at his time. Democritus stated that there must be a state of matter too small to be broken down anymore. He called this matter atoms.
Aristotle disagreed with Democritus. He stated that Democritus's ideas were wrong and there was no truth to them. Aristotle was 14 years old when Democritus died. Meaning he was born in 384 BC. Aristotle had no problem outright denying Democritus's ideas publicly because of his following, which treated him with great honor.
Dalton came much later in September of 1766 and died later in July of 1844. John Dalton was …show more content…

He mathematically figured that there should be such things as a positively charged electron. Even though the math of the discovery was correct, he couldn’t fathom to accept his own discovery, due to how outrageous it seemed, and dismissed it entirely. What he actually discovered was the positron.
Enrico Fermi lived from 1901-1954 and played several important roles in the development of nuclear fission. He figured out a way to show that nuclear transformation is happening in nearly every element that is put through neutron blasting. This led to the discovery of slow neutrons and nuclear fission. He also was in charge of many experiments that ended up leading to the atomic pile and the first controlled nuclear chain reaction. Not only that, but he also played a huge role in solving issues with the development of the first atomic bomb.
Murray Gell-Mann was born on September 15th in 1929. He discovered “quarks.” He managed to classify all known particles at the time into different sections, known as the eightfold way. His system of classification of the particles was similar to the classification of elements in the periodic table. He suggested that there were at least three types of quarks; up, down, and strange. He then later discovered three more; charm, bottom, and top. Each of these quarks also had a corresponding

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