Today's Rocket Words: Your 5 words and meanings to learn

Democritus

an Ancient Greek philosopher primarily remembered today for suggesting the existence of atoms

John Dalton

an English chemist, physicist and meteorologist, best known for introducing the atomic theory into chemistry

J.J. Thomson

Sir Joseph John Thomson; a British physicist and Nobel laureate in physics who was credited with the discovery of the electron, the first subatomic particle to be discovered

cathode

the negatively charged electrode by which electrons enter an electrical device

Ernest Rutherford

the scientist who discovered the atomic nucleus with his gold foil experiment

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