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.

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 ...

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

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 ...