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Democritus was an Greek philosopher and was born in Abrade (though other sources cite Milieus) who, with his teacher Leucippus, was the first to propose an atomic universe.
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Ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle was born circa 384 B.C. in Stagira. He hypothesized that matters has a continuous composition
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Chemist John Dalton was born September 6, 1766, in Eagles field, England. He suggested that matter is made up of small discrete particles.
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Robert Brown was born in Mont rose, Scotland—the son of an Episcopalian minister. Observed that some dead pollen grains suspended in water were constantly moving about randomly in all directions.
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Albert Einstein was on born 14 March 1879 – 18 April 1955)He was a German-born theoretical physicist. He explained that dead pollen grains were moving because they were being bombarded by the moving water particles.
