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Yes! The Greek philosopher Democritus, born in 460 B.C., first theorized the smallest possible particle, and called it the atom. Of course, the definition of an atom has changed quite a bit (there is no such thing as a water atom!), and we know that even smaller particles exist, but Democritus was definitely thinking in the right direction.

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