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cepts of Leucippus and Democritus were, however, not accepted by their contemporaries because [t]wo factors weighed against any widespread acceptance of the classical version of atomism. The first factor [...] com- pletely rejected was almost completely accepted. Boltz- mann, the great proponent of the atomic theory, how- ever, did not experience the general acceptance of the theory for which he had fought, having [...] Cambridge, he was inspired by the work of Sir Robert Ball and J. J. Thomson. In 1898, Ernest Rutherford accepted a professor- ship at McGill University in Montreal, Canada. The laboratories there were very well
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the accepted understanding, he had also to conclude that heat is not a substance but the motion of the smallest particles of matter. Doing so brought him in conflict with the most recent accepted doctrine [...] conservation, the importance of Lavoisier's work lies not in the fact that his system can be seen as the accepted theory – and actually Rumford’s work did not change this impression significantly, on the very contrary: [...] destroyed or created. He had embodied the idea of conservation in a way that made it impossible to accept any excep- tions of this principle. But there seemed to be several exceptions as, for example, the
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just because it contradicted Aristotle’s doctrine directly, but also as the Catholic Church had accepted the Earth being in the center as the truth. On the other hand the reformation had changed the fact
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However, the concepts of Leucippus and Democritus were not accepted by their con- temporaries: “Two factors weighed against any widespread acceptance of the classical version of atomism. The first factor was [...] matter (Görs 1999). The atom gets established Despite the discussions amongst the chem- ists who accepted the atom as a useful hypoth- esis, the physicists started to use the atom as a real object with [...] years, the understanding of atomism had changed from almost complete rejection to almost complete acceptance. Boltzmann, the great proponent of the atomic theory, was at Background Atoms 5 Storytelling Teaching
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cepts of Leucippus and Democritus were, however, not accepted by their contemporaries because [t]wo factors weighed against any widespread acceptance of the classical version of atomism. The first factor [...] com- pletely rejected was almost completely accepted. Boltz- mann, the great proponent of the atomic theory, how- ever, did not experience the general acceptance of the theory for which he had fought, having [...] Kuhnian sense, arguably turning this achievement in stoichiometric chemistry into a science. Yet, acceptance was not automatic. Even though Dal- 4 According to Clarke (1803), the first presentation was made
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chemistry of radioactive sub- stances.” By then, he had been induced to move to Manchester, England to accept his second job as head professor of physics there. One spring day, in March of 1909, Ernest Rutherford [...] discovered, I still have no clue of what the atom really looks like,” he mused. “I cer- tainly don’t accept JJ’s theory that the atom is some sort of blob of positive and negative charge distributed, more
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However, the concepts of Leucippus and Democritus were not accepted by their con- temporaries: “Two factors weighed against any widespread acceptance of the classical version of atomism. The first factor was [...] he was in- spired by the work of Sir Robert Ball and J. J. Thomson. In 1898, Ernest Rutherford accepted a profes- sorship at McGill University in Montreal, Canada. The laboratories there were very well [...] University, who offered to step down if Rutherford would take over his position as Chair. Rutherford accepted the offer, and began working there in 1907. In the Manchester laboratory, the famous gold foil ex-