Democritus was the Greek philosopher who made a mental model of the atom. He said that atoms composed everything and were physically but not geometrically indivisible. Between the atoms there is empty space. They always will have been, and will be in motion and are indestructible. Different atoms differ in size and shape.
Democritus and/or his mentor Leucippus came up with a concept he called "atomos". It's really only vaguely like the modern concept of an atom, so I don't understand why everyone gets so excited about a philosophical concept (that turned out to be wrong in many, many, MANY ways) that some ancient Greek pulled out from under the lower portion of his toga.
Democritus (460-360 BC)
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Aristotle (384-322 BC)
These philosophers were Leukippus and Democritus.
John Dalton. is a British Scientist.
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Democritus a greek philosopher was the first to propose that every matter are made up of tiny particles called atom or in greek "a-timos"
Democritius's model of the atom-that it was an indivisible-was accepted for quite a long time. However in 1940 the layout of the electrons, protons and neutrons were worked out by Maria Goeppert-Mayer, Eugene Wigner etc. so a model that the questioner is probably imagining as the 'accepted one' could be created. However since the electrons, protons and neutrons are made of quarks-discovered in 1964, another model of the atom was discovered.
The Greeks, from the word atomon, meaning "uncuttable, indivisible."
Democritus got the word atom from his mentor Leucippus. The word atom is Greek for indivisible. He said that all matter was made up of these atoms which were indivisible and indestructible.
The first atomic model was proposed by the Greek philosopher Democritus in 442 BC.
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The Greek philosopher that named the atom was Democritus. In Greek, the word atomos means indivisible. Democritus was born in Abdera, Greece in 460 BC.
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Democritus was the Greek philosopher who proposed the atom model in 460 BC. He stated that all living things are made up of tiny, indivisible things called atomos.
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This was the Greek philosopher Leukippus and then his successor Democritus.
A Greek philosopher named Democritus of Abdera coined the word atom in about 420 B.C.
Who was the Greek philosopher who coined the term "atom"? Who was the Greek philosopher who coined the term "atom"? Democritus
Democritus a greek philosopher was the first to propose that every matter are made up of tiny particles called atom or in greek "a-timos"
the Greek Philosophers did not test their theory.