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He asked this question: If you break a piece of matter in half, and then break it in half again, how many breaks will you have to make before you can break it no further?
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Aristotle placed him among the pre-socratic philosophers
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He proposed a model for the structure of the atom. He also knew that electrons have a negative charge and thought that matter must have a positive charge.His model looked like raisins on the surface of a lump of pudding
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He won the noble prize in physics
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It was discovered as a result of his interpretation of the famous 1909 Rutherford experiment
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He was born with an umbilical hernia which killed him when it was left untreated too long
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He observed the spectral lines of radiation when the atoms were excited
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He proposed a model that showed eletrons moved around in the nucleus in discrete enegry
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He taught himself English by reading DIckers Pickwick Papers over and over again
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He was performing various experiments in the field of radio activity and noticed that there was something within all the which was divisble which determined which element the atom represented
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He was a prisoner of war with other British citizens during WWI
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He saw the atomic number was less than the atomic mass and he realized that since electrons have no weight something the proton was contributing to the mass which was the neutron