jan 13, 400 BC - Democritus

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Year (of the discovery or the year they lived)
Must include answers to the questions below:
The year that his experiment was conducted was in 400BC.

When did they live? Where did they live?
He lived in Abdera.

What new information did they contribute to the understanding of the atom?
Democritus discovered that all mater have atoms.

How did they find this new information? (What experiments did they do?)
He had a theory that there were things that he could not see.

Interesting facts – other accomplishments, personal information, famous historical events at the time, etc.
A fun fact about him was that he was known as the laughing philosopher.

For fun, a “realistic” situation that lead the person to do the experiment.
He was just like there something more then we can see there is something else here.

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