This was interestIng history of the discovery of the atom and all the intermediate steps along the way.  They went into a lot of the personal and political relationships of the physicists.  These were all very interesting, especially around how stubborn some of them got around their ideas being correct.  There was also a good bit of peer pressure from the ‘best’ physicists on the less great ones.  It is amazing what lengths they all went through to prove very small ideas.  I was also amazed at the semantics that they argued about with the particle wave duality of matter.

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