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“At first sight nothing seems more obvious than that everything has a beginning and an end, and that everything can be subdivided into smaller parts. Nevertheless, for entirely speculative reasons the philosophers of Antiquity, especially the Stoics, concluded this concept to be quite unnecessary. The prodigious development of physics has now reached the same conclusion as those philosophers, Empedocles and Democritus in particular, who lived around 500 B.C.E. and for whom even ancient man had a lively admiration.”

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Svante Arrhenius
Svante Arrhenius

Swedish chemist and one of the founders of physical chemistry. Svante Arrhenius proposed the theory of ionization, for which he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1903. His research had a profound impact on modern chemistry and physics. more

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