Particle Physics by WengerAS

Question 11

This Greek PHILOSOPHER is frequently credited as the first codifier of certain principles that are central to particle theories of matter. Although he called them "atoms," their properties (physical indivisibility, indestructibility) today are more associated with subatomic particles. Identify this thinker, a student of Leucippus and contemporary of Epicurus, whose ideas were so hated by formalists that Plato proposed they be burned.

Democritus

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