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His idea conflicted with Democritus' theory and said that everything is made of elements. This was believed for over 2,000 years.He studied under Plato from 367 B.C. to 347 B.C.and later tutored Alexander the Great at the Macedonian court from 342 B.C. to 399 B.C.
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Democritus theorised that everything is made of atoms.
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Daltons 5 postulates(Dalton’s Atomic Theory):
All matter consists of tiny particles.
Atoms are indestructible and unchangeable.
Elements are characterized by the mass of their atoms.
When elements react, their atoms combine in simple, whole number ratios.
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the development of a better vacuum pump that allowed him to make cathode-ray tubes with a smaller gas pressure.
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The law of octaves says if the chemical elements are arranged according to increasing atomic weight, the ones that have similar physical and chemical properties happen after each interval of seven elements.
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He organized the periodic table by the molecular weights of the elements and by their properties.
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descovered the nucleus. known as "Father of Physics"
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Descovered the electron
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Quantum theory of Matter. Nobel prize
