ydrogen,”

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    Neitoms nor term itself ly ne Greeks. Dalton’s contribution o consider tive sizes and cers oftoms and  togetance, t estelement, so  an atomic er consisted of sevenparts of oxygen to one of omic  tive erribly accurate—oxygen’s atomic een, not seven—but try and muc ofmodern science.

    ton famous—albeit in a lo P .J. Pelletier traveled to Mancer to meet tomic ierexpected to find taco some grand institution, so ounded to discover eacary aritic to boys in a small screet. According to tific orian E. J. ier, upon be man,stammered:

    “Est-ce que j’ai l’on?” for  t of European fame, teac four rules. “Yes,” said tter-of-fact Quaker. “ilt t do t about ic?”

    Alton tried to avoid all ed to ty against  pension. y tege stretcionary of National Biograp, rivaled inlengteentury men of science.

    For a century after Dalton made  remained entirely ical, and a fe scientists—notably t Ernst Maced tence of atoms at all. “Atoms cannot be perceived by the senses . .

    . t,” e. tence of atoms fully icular t it o  in t tical p, and atomic ent, Ludzmann in 1906.

    It ein rovertible evidence of atoms’ existence ion in 1905, but ttracted little attention and in any caseEinstein o become consumed ivity. So t realomic age, if not t personage on t Rutherford.

    Ruto parents land to raise a little flax and a lot of co parapeveneinberg). Groe part of a remote country,  as far from tream of science as it o be, but in 1895  took o tory at Cambridge U