¶ Dalton: John Dalton
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Dalton: John Dalton: (1766-1844)
“Dalton was then at the mental stage of the interpretation where he thought that they really had found the smallest thing, the atom. He thought all the atoms were made up of the hydrogen atom. There was no nucleus, just atoms. They were not broken up into protons or anything else. It was just atoms and they thought they had actually found what Democritus had talked about. He thought that they had found the smallest hard core thing. It was invisible, below sight, but there it was-- if you could get a fine enough microscope you could find a hard core thing.”
¶ Citations
- Oregon Lecture #4, p. 123. 6 Jul’62
