Democritus

Name:
Democritus
Detailed information:
A Greek philosopher (approximately 465 BC). The first thinker of record to conceive of matter as existing in the form of small indivisible particles, which he called atoms. However, this concept was overshadowed by Aristotle's theories, and it was not until some 2000 years later that it was developed by John Dalton in England—an astonishing length of dormancy for one of the most creative ideas in the history of science.See Dalton, John.