One hundred years ago, Ernest Rutherford decided to shoot some stuff at atoms and toppled then-current atomic theory. Physicist and blogger Rhett Allain walks through the rise of six atomic models.

Stenger, an emeritus professor of physics at the University of Hawaii, argues in this quick philosophical treatise and history of atomic theory that the existence of the atom proves that God doesn ...

Democritus is credited with coming up with the atom. The question was, what would happen if you keep taking something (like a tree) and breaking into smaller and smaller pieces?

Science 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’ Expand Cormac O'Raifeartaigh ...

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