@compoundchem #JohnDalton is the true founder of #QuantumTheory because his #AtomicTheory correctly quantized MASS to explain observations in #chemistry 🧪 almost a century before #MaxPlanck quantized energy to avoid the ‘ultraviolet catastrophe’ :oh_no_bubble:.

@petergleick On par with chemists trying to convince physicists about the validity of Dalton’s #AtomicTheory for virtually the entire 19th century. Or Lewis’s #ElectronPairing for at least half the 20th century. 🤷🏻‍♂️ #Science is a human activity.

The #OG of #AtomicTheory in #Science , #Democritus.

#StreetArt in #Athens.

John Dalton, the originator of the modern era #AtomicTheory was also the first quantum theorist. He quantized mass almost a century before Max Planck quantized energy.

#QuantumTheory #ChemToots

On November 26, 1817, Alsatian French chemist and educator Charles-Adolphe Wurtz was born. Wurtz is best remembered for his decades-long advocacy for the atomic theory and for ideas about the structures of chemical compounds, against the skeptical opinions of chemists such as Marcellin Berthelot and Etienne Henri Sainte-Claire Deville.

http://scihi.org/charles-adolphe-wurtz-atomic-theory/

#chemistry #historyofscience #organicchemistry #wurtzreaction #atomictheory