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Preston MacDougall<p>2025 is the International Year of <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/Quantum" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Quantum</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/Science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Science</span></a>. <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/IYQ" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>IYQ</span></a> Although I’m not sure why it is this year.</p><p>1803 marks the birth of quantum <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/chemistry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>chemistry</span></a>. John Dalton quantized mass in his <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/AtomicTheory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AtomicTheory</span></a>.</p><p>1900 marks the birth of quantum <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/physics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>physics</span></a>. Max Planck quantized energy.</p><p><a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/ChangeMyMind" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ChangeMyMind</span></a> (Hint: You can’t change <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/history" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>history</span></a>.)</p>
Preston MacDougall<p>Proposing violation of the 1st Law of <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/Thermodynamics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Thermodynamics</span></a> in <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/QuantumPhysics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>QuantumPhysics</span></a> (which its founder, <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/MaxPlanck" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MaxPlanck</span></a> explicitly avoided), was not the only time "Bohr got it wrong", but it was a doozy! See G. N. Lewis and any <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/chemistry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>chemistry</span></a> textbook.</p><p>By the way, for <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/HistoryOfScience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HistoryOfScience</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/Histodons" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Histodons</span></a> John Dalton is the founder of <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/QuantumTheory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>QuantumTheory</span></a> because he correctly proposed the quantization of *mass* in the modern <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/AtomicTheory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AtomicTheory</span></a> that he introduced almost a century before Planck proposed the quantization of <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/energy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>energy</span></a>.</p>
Matt Potter<p>This is lots of fun. ‘Uncleftish Beholding’ is a 1989 attempt to explain ‘Atomic Theory’ without using words that come to English from Latin, French or Greek roots. </p><p>It reimagines English as Germanic: ‘uncleft’ is ‘atom’ etc. </p><p><a href="https://www.ling.upenn.edu/~beatrice/1100/docs/uncleftish-beholding.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">ling.upenn.edu/~beatrice/1100/</span><span class="invisible">docs/uncleftish-beholding.html</span></a></p><p><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncleftish_Beholding" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unclef</span><span class="invisible">tish_Beholding</span></a></p><p><a href="https://c.im/tags/science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>science</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/scicomm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>scicomm</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/language" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>language</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/linguistics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>linguistics</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/germanic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>germanic</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/englishlanguage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>englishlanguage</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/uncleftishbeholding" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>uncleftishbeholding</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/atoms" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>atoms</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/atomictheory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>atomictheory</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/physics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>physics</span></a></p>
Preston MacDougall<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@gutenberg_org" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>gutenberg_org</span></a></span> Who’s gonna tell him? <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/JohnDalton" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>JohnDalton</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/AtomicTheory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AtomicTheory</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/Democritus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Democritus</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/Philosophy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Philosophy</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/Greece" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Greece</span></a></p>
David Wakeham<p>🧪 🍎</p><p>When you encounter a young person, introduce them to Lucretius' De Rerum Natura...</p><p>... and now they possibly love it even more than you do 😍🥰</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Philosophy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Philosophy</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Lucretius" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Lucretius</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Latin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Latin</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Epicureanism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Epicureanism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Poetry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Poetry</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Physics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Physics</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AtomicTheory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AtomicTheory</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/QuantumPhysics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>QuantumPhysics</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Cosmology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Cosmology</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/UniverseOrigins" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UniverseOrigins</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/MustRead" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MustRead</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ClassicBooks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ClassicBooks</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/LiveLongLearning" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LiveLongLearning</span></a></p>
Knowledge Zone<p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/OnThisDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>OnThisDay</span></a> Birth Anniversary of John Dalton (1803) - best known for introducing the <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/AtomicTheory" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>AtomicTheory</span></a> into <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Chemistry" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Chemistry</span></a>.</p><p>Birth Anniversary of Jane Addams (1860) - known as the &quot;mother&quot; of social work. In 1931, she became the first American woman to be awarded the <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Nobel" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Nobel</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Peace" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Peace</span></a> Prize.</p><p><a href="https://knowledgezone.co.in/news" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">knowledgezone.co.in/news</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>
Preston MacDougall<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://threads.net/@la_seletzky/" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>la_seletzky</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://newsmast.social/@KamalaHarrisWin" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>KamalaHarrisWin</span></a></span> For instance, one of the most famous quotes from the first <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/quantum" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>quantum</span></a> theorist and father of the modern <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/AtomicTheory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AtomicTheory</span></a> , John Dalton is: “Ask an impertinent question, and you are on the way to a pertinent answer. That is the essence of <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>science</span></a>.”</p><p>The <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/racist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>racist</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/CNN" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CNN</span></a> question *was* impertinent, but it was also profit-driven. In any case, the “<a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/NextQuestionPlease" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NextQuestionPlease</span></a> “ answer was indeed profoundly pertinent!</p><p>I said I was ‘fixated’ on this!</p>
Preston MacDougall<p>In 1803 <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/JohnDalton" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>JohnDalton</span></a> used the Laws of <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/Chemistry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Chemistry</span></a> to propose the modern <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/AtomicTheory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AtomicTheory</span></a>. It marks the birth of <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/QuantumTheory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>QuantumTheory</span></a>. (Dalton quantized mass a century before <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/MaxPlanck" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MaxPlanck</span></a> quantized energy.)</p><p>In 1914, <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/HenryMoseley" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HenryMoseley</span></a> used the X-ray emmisions of atoms to propose the quantization of <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/AtomicStructure" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AtomicStructure</span></a>.</p><p>Sadly, <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/Moseley" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Moseley</span></a> was killed by a sniper a year later in the Battle of <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/Gallipoli" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Gallipoli</span></a> in <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/Turkey" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Turkey</span></a>. <a href="https://theconversation.com/how-science-lost-one-of-its-greatest-minds-in-the-trenches-of-gallipoli-45890" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">theconversation.com/how-scienc</span><span class="invisible">e-lost-one-of-its-greatest-minds-in-the-trenches-of-gallipoli-45890</span></a></p>
Preston MacDougall<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://indieweb.social/@mariapopova" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>mariapopova</span></a></span> I believe you correctly surmise “how staggered (Emily Dickinson’s) pliant young mind must have been to learn that scientists had just proven the existence of atoms.”</p><p>But <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/physicists" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>physicists</span></a> didn’t accept the <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/AtomicTheory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AtomicTheory</span></a> until <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/AlbertEinstein" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AlbertEinstein</span></a> demonstrated its verity through Brownian motion over a *century* after <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/JohnDalton" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>JohnDalton</span></a> proposed it.</p><p>Both ‘particle <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/chemistry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>chemistry</span></a> ‘ and <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/QuantumChemistry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>QuantumChemistry</span></a> predate their <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/physics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>physics</span></a> counterparts by a century since Dalton quantized *mass*!</p>
Preston MacDougall<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@selfawarepatterns" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>selfawarepatterns</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://selfawarepatterns.com/@selfawarepatterns.com" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>selfawarepatterns.com</span></a></span> Dalton’s <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/AtomicTheory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AtomicTheory</span></a> wasn’t controversial for chemists. We were well into the architecture at the nanoscale (molecules) before physicists went the other way and explored the nucleus and its structure. 🤷🏻‍♂️ </p><p><a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/LudwigBoltzmann" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LudwigBoltzmann</span></a> was among the first physicists to ‘see the light’.</p><p><a href="https://academic.oup.com/book/34859?login=false" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">academic.oup.com/book/34859?lo</span><span class="invisible">gin=false</span></a></p>
Preston MacDougall<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@mcnees" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>mcnees</span></a></span> Yes, <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/MaxPlanck" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MaxPlanck</span></a> correctly hypothesized that energy is quantized in 1900, and this is properly celebrated on <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/QuantumDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>QuantumDay</span></a>. 👏 </p><p>But <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/JohnDalton" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>JohnDalton</span></a> had hypothesized, and just as correctly, that *mass* is quantized almost 100 years earlier when he published his <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/AtomicTheory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AtomicTheory</span></a>. 👏 <br><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Dalton" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_D</span><span class="invisible">alton</span></a></p>
Preston MacDougall<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@gutenberg_org" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>gutenberg_org</span></a></span> OTD in 1900, <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/MaxPlanck" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MaxPlanck</span></a> introduced the concept of *energy* quanta. ✅ </p><p>But <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/JohnDalton" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>JohnDalton</span></a> introduced the concept of *mass* quanta almost a century earlier when he proposed the modern <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/AtomicTheory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AtomicTheory</span></a>. 🤷🏻‍♂️ </p><p><a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/Histodons" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Histodons</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/QuantumTheory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>QuantumTheory</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/Chemistry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Chemistry</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/Physics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Physics</span></a></p>
Preston MacDougall<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@gutenberg_org" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>gutenberg_org</span></a></span> British chemist <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/JohnDalton" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>JohnDalton</span></a> is the *actual* originator of <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/QuantumTheory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>QuantumTheory</span></a>. His <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/AtomicTheory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AtomicTheory</span></a> correctly quantized *mass* a century before Planck quantized energy. 🤔</p>
Preston MacDougall<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@gutenberg_org" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>gutenberg_org</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://wikis.world/@wikipedia" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>wikipedia</span></a></span> As if a CENTURY of synthetic chemistry, yielding miracle drugs, fabulous synthetic dyes, etc… all conceived on the basis of <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/JohnDalton" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>JohnDalton</span></a> ‘s <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/AtomicTheory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AtomicTheory</span></a> was pure luck? <br><a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/GimmeABreak" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GimmeABreak</span></a> 🤷🏻‍♂️</p>
Preston MacDougall<p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://mstdn.social/@compoundchem" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>compoundchem</span></a></span> <br>1803 marks the birth of <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/QuantumTheory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>QuantumTheory</span></a>.</p><p><a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/JohnDalton" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>JohnDalton</span></a> quantized mass when he postulated his essentially correct <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/AtomicTheory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AtomicTheory</span></a>. ✅</p>
Preston MacDougall<p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://mstdn.social/@compoundchem" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>compoundchem</span></a></span> <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/JohnDalton" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>JohnDalton</span></a> is the true founder of <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/QuantumTheory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>QuantumTheory</span></a> because his <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/AtomicTheory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AtomicTheory</span></a> correctly quantized MASS to explain observations in <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/chemistry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>chemistry</span></a> 🧪 almost a century before <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/MaxPlanck" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MaxPlanck</span></a> quantized energy to avoid the ‘ultraviolet catastrophe’ :oh_no_bubble:.</p>
Knowledge Zone<p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/OnThisDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>OnThisDay</span></a> Birth Anniversary of John Dalton (1803) - best known for introducing the <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/AtomicTheory" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>AtomicTheory</span></a> into <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Chemistry" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Chemistry</span></a>.</p><p>Birth Anniversary of Jane Addams (1860) - known as the &quot;mother&quot; of social work. In 1931, she became the first American woman to be awarded the <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Nobel" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Nobel</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Peace" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Peace</span></a> Prize.</p><p><a href="https://knowledgezone.co.in/news" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">knowledgezone.co.in/news</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>
Preston MacDougall<p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@gutenberg_org" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>gutenberg_org</span></a></span> The first <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/QuantumTheory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>QuantumTheory</span></a> explaining the quantized properties of atoms was <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/JohnDalton" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>JohnDalton</span></a> ‘s <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/AtomicTheory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AtomicTheory</span></a> a century earlier than Planck’s quantum theory and the Franck-Hertz experiment.</p><p>His ca 1803 theory explained the quantization of MASS in atoms and molecules! 🤔 </p><p><a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/QuantumChemistry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>QuantumChemistry</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/Chemiverse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Chemiverse</span></a></p>
Preston MacDougall<p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://fediscience.org/@petergleick" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>petergleick</span></a></span> On par with chemists trying to convince physicists about the validity of Dalton’s <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/AtomicTheory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AtomicTheory</span></a> for virtually the entire 19th century. Or Lewis’s <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/ElectronPairing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ElectronPairing</span></a> for at least half the 20th century. 🤷🏻‍♂️ <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/Science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Science</span></a> is a human activity.</p>
Preston MacDougall<p>The <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/OG" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OG</span></a> of <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/AtomicTheory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AtomicTheory</span></a> in <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/Science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Science</span></a> , <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/Democritus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Democritus</span></a>.</p><p><a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/StreetArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>StreetArt</span></a> in <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/Athens" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Athens</span></a>.</p>