Early Beginnings
- 440 BC Democritus speculates about fundamental indivisible particles—calls them "atoms"
- 2nd century BC Kanada theorizes the existence of four kinds of atoms, which could combine to produce diatomic and triatomic molecules.
Read more about this topic: Timeline Of Atomic And Subatomic Physics
Famous quotes containing the words early and/or beginnings:
“Names on a list, whose faces I do not recall
But they are gone to early death, who late in school
Distinguished the belt feed lever from the belt holding pawl.”
—Richard Eberhart (b. 1904)
“When the beginnings of self-destruction enter the heart it seems no bigger than a grain of sand.”
—John Cheever (1912–1982)