A Chemist Explains the ENTIRE History of Atomic Theory

[@alastairzotos]

I love this content, some of the most comprehensive science stuff on KZbin, I'm really happy I found it!

[@Chemistorian]

Glad to hear it, thanks for watching! Plenty more to come in the future 👨‍🔬

[@ValensBellator]

When we reached the atomists in a class I took my mind was blown by how much they were able to intuit via logic and reasoning. It was only the lack of tools to test these theories that allowed the idea to die out for centuries.

[@Chemistorian]

My exact reaction as well 🤯 They really were amazing thinkers.

[@CountBifford]

Nah, the Greek philosophers had a lot of ridiculous ideas, if they got atoms kinda right it's just by luck.

[@kallewirsch2263]

@@CountBifford I wouldn't say luck. The greek philosophers had a deep problem with the concept of infinity. Cutting something infinitely often into parts was something that frightened them. Infinity was something that led to strange and obviously wrong conclusions as can be seen by the famous paradoxes of Zeno of Elea. Zeno set up a thought experiment as follows: How do you walk from A to B? Well, you walk to a position halfway between A and B. Lets call it C. Once C is reached, you walk from C to B. But how do you reach C? Easy. You walk to a point D, halfway in between A and C. How do you walk to D? Same idea: You walk from A to a point E, halfway in between A and D. And so on, and so on. Since one can repeat this process infinitely often, it seems you will never get from A to B. The conclusion is unavoidable: It is impossible to walk from A to B and thus motion in itself is just an illusion. The greek philosophers could not disprove this concept (Zeno came up with a number of other paradoxa, which shared the same concept - extrapolate some process to infinity) and it took centuries until mathematicians figured out, how to avoid the conclusion: inifinte series can have a finite limit.

[@CliffSedge-nu5fv]

​@@CountBifford That's how science works, though. Come up with as many ideas as you can, and the ones that don't work go away. That's also how biological evolution happens. Random mutations produce millions of species. Those that don't work out away.

[@CliffSedge-nu5fv]

They also lacked the tools to do anything else with that idea. It died out for centuries because no one could build a bomb out of it. As soon as the state discovers that your science can create a better weapon, then the scientists get money.

[@jeffo4817]

It’s nice to have an actual person’s voice narrate

[@alanyura644]

FOR REAL. I've been tired of those dead AI voices, that are everywhere now, practically since the day they popped up

[@ClifftopTragedy]

I automatically thumb down those ai videos. They're should be a sticker like the explicit lyrics thing ob music or a "made by humans" stamp that has to be earned.

[@neoqueto]

39:45 he said her full name like a true historian should. Polish people are grateful for this historical accuracy as "Skłodowska" is omitted very often these days.

[@annoyingbstard9407]

Who’s she then?

[@MagdalenaSlay]

@@annoyingbstard9407 A pole, she has always declared herself as a pole, even though she was, inextricably, a naturalized french, yet still a pole. There is an awesome polish movie based on her biography, named just Curie afaik, i recommend it.

[@dibaldgyfm9933]

​@@annoyingbstard9407 Marie Curie

[@theccpisaparasite8813]

These days? Always

[@theccpisaparasite8813]

​@@MagdalenaSlayvery much Polish ... died for her science

[@BSIII]

I'm really dumb when it comes to chemistry, but I've always admired chemists, and love history. This channel is going to be great 🧙🏿‍♂️⚗️🧪

[@KiwiBay2.0]

It's refreshing to hear that! Always learn. Anytime I don't know something I think about, I research it. It's called, "Going Down The Rabbit Hole". ;)

[@dk6024]

We were given all this for free in school with no idea how hard won it was.

[@KipIngram]

I find the history of the experimentation, and the struggle to explain those experimental results, just totally fascinating. It's really amazing what these people achieved, working in such a (relatively) primitive technological age.

[@TS-jm7jm]

​@@KipIngram really criminal, is tgat the information is just given to us dogmatically instead of as a conclusion to the reasoning that got to it being presented,

[@daltongalloway]

Yes! I didn’t take much science is high school or college but I remember not really being told how much work had to go into constructing modern day science. That should be a required history class at least in one semester

[@Weisior]

@@daltongalloway I think its a good thing, that we learn the practical applications of the results of this hard work. This is why it was done.

[@daltongalloway]

@@Weisior definitely

[@bobwagemakers5055]

Kudos for taking the time to try to pronounce the names of those involved correctly. That says a lot. Subscribed!

[@andrewleonardi3351]

Watched this in a VR headset. Both the video and sound editing are just unbelievable. I hope your channel explodes in popularity.

[@Chemistorian]

Thanks mate, glad you enjoyed it! Now I’m curious as to what this video looks like when watched in VR 🤔

[@andrewleonardi3351]

It looks gorgeous!@@Chemistorian

[@TheSilmarillian]

Opening with the big firecracker nice indeed. New 2 your channel will be here for a while great work indeed.

[@jevogroni4829]

when things are taught this way it makes me want to learn it all. to understand the old work and then see the new findings in their context

[@joels310]

You earned my subscription! Fantastic explanations of the models and how things were uncovered. I thought I knew quite a bit and there were definitely some things I knew but this filled in a lot of gaps. The only difference I think about your ending statement is that people have evil hearts and will take things that are good like nuclear power and make it into weapons. I know that we have recently been able to induce fusion reactions, but I think the ultimate source of energy will come when we are able to annihilate atoms via anti-matter, but this too I fear will become weaponized. Thanks for the amazing content, I look forward to your next.

[@denniscook390]

I've watched this video twice now and have to say it is the science based content I have enjoyed the most ever on KZbin. If I were a high school teacher I would use it as the basis of my atomic theory teachings. Bravo sir!

[@shripadbabrekar3023]

Hey Man I love your videos and your idea of combining of history and chemistry. In class we are taught a bleek and boring lectures of such fundamental yet highly interesting topics, Thanks

[@naicul_22]

Wow, this was one of the best chemistry, history and physics videos I have seen for a while. Go on your videos are amazing🤩

[@lawrencelimburger9160]

Took me back to as level physics class, pleased i paid a bit of attention then. fascinating doc! Well explained, great edits, hope you can continue to make more!

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[@Chemistorian]

Thanks for the kind words, and greetings from England! Really glad you're enjoying the videos.

[@steveholmes1736]

From England, to the mountains of West Virginia, that’s awesome! Subscribed.

[@kantanlabs3859]

I am teaching this story to my students every year, you did an impressing job here! Everything is accurate, contributors, names and names pronunciations are all correct. Please make other similar contents on any scientific subject you may pick!

[@BobWidlefish]

46:13 howdy friend, this was an excellent documentary - you’re an amazing educator / editor / producer / historian! I did want to suggest two additional chapters at the end: 1. Cover Randal Mill’s “hydrino”, an even lower energy state for hydrogen. 2. Cover the Structured Atom Model (SAM) which provides GREAT intuitive insight into atomic behavior using a highly simplified model (it’s incredibly simple yet intuitively explains many otherwise peculiar facts about atom splitting and merging and max size). Have a great week!

[@robcat2075]

26:09 Kasimir Fajans! A name from my childhood! My father was a student of his and never stopped grousing about how Fajans didn't get the recognition he deserved for whatever it was he deserved recognition for.

[@mohammadasaad1508]

To explain the contextual circumstances that lead to a discovery is the best way to understand about a subject because it makes more sensable and intuitive. that's is the only way i can comprehend a new subject.

[@scottydu81]

I flunked out of math class because the teacher was unable to provide any context to the quadratic formula. It looked like a random assortment of mathematic symbols with no coherency to me.

[@mohammadasaad1508]

@@scottydu81 I always hated math cause the teachers were starting any course by just writing the formulas and giving us examples to solve, without mentioning any background at all like why the human started to use it or what was the problem they face to create that formulas and how they got their logic

[@Grateful92]

Not 'maybe' but certainly science will bring us back out again, I believe. It took me more than three hours to watch this incredible video because each frame of it is worth paying a huge attention to My most favorite part of this video was where you were talking about the electron and standing waves. It was strangely beautiful. Thanks for making this exceptional video. I believe that it would have been so helpful if you had provided a link of those books from which you copied those excerpts. Its still great, though🎉❤

[@mercerconsulting9728]

Excellent job of explaining how we came to understand the atom. Thank you! And clearly we still have a long way to go. And I agree with one listener who stated that it was amazing how much insight people gained just by logical reasoning and intuition.

[@snake4eva]

@Chemistorian I did not know that the plum pudding model also proposed the electronic shells. This was informative

[@jorymil]

Something I'm missing in this video is Einstein's "other" paper on Brownian motion, which provides additional support for the atomic model. The French scientist Jean Perrin then devised experiments that confirmed Einstein's work. As with a lot of these things, it straddles the line of what we think of as chemistry and physics. Whether it's as important as Einstein's other work... got me there. But what makes it cool is that the experiments can be done safely at home with simple equipment; no need for cathode rays, radioactive substances, electron/stm/AFM microscopes, etc.

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[@JonathanLit]

Wow man. Fantastic video! And very good pronunciation of both German and French names. I’m very impressed. Well done!

[@Sodablue1]

This is exactly what I was looking for. Thanks!

[@shanthala1345]

hey, his was so amazing , can you make similar videos on history of theories of chemical bonding including hybridization , vsepr, mot.on thermodynamics, entrophy, kinetics etc

[@magneticsnail7218]

Great video, thanks for making it

[@MalcolmAkner]

Please continue with this history! The discovery of the quark, how neutrinos had to be a thing, how well quantum experiments adhered to theory, the issue with relativistic in the atomic realm, molecular theory updating throughout all of this, etc. There's so much left to tell, but this was an excellent video!

[@nektu5435]

I'm a fairly new sub and I must say that your style of video essay seems to suit me rather well. The story you're telling here is fascinating and crucial to understanding the history of science. I'm familiar with some parts of the story already but I've also learned quite a bit. Thanks for that.

[@kered13]

Great video! I just have one critique: At 41:20 it sounds like Chadwick concluded that the Neutron consisted of a bound proton and electron. It is not mentioned when or why this view was replaced with the idea that the neutron was a fundamental particle of it's own (of course that would itself eventually be replaced with the quark model, but my understanding is that for some time in between the neutron was thought to be fundamental).

[@Zapleek]

This is an incredible video, it shows the lifelong passion that went into providing theories for the next generation to experiment and to and gain knowledge bringing humanity to where it is today. So many lives were consumed answering questions which have existed for millennia. We finally understand the properties of quantized matter. The only question is what we will do with this knowledge.

[@LarsOfMars.]

There's a wee lane called Isotope Place on the campus of the University of Glasgow that's beside the building where the dinner was held at which the term isotope was invented and suggested

[@KiwiBay2.0]

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[@Chemistorian]

Thanks for watching and sharing. I really appreciate your support!

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[@simonguitton]

I've been looking for a video of this kind for some time. This one exceeds my wishes. Thank you for this work. And you touch on some points of quantum physics too, nice! I'd love to see a similar video avout the developments of quantum theories and physics.

[@isabellawells4607]

This is was so fun to watch. Thank you 🙏

[@GRAHAMAUS]

Excellent video. I hope you will do a part 2 taking it forward to include quarks and the standard model.

[@unbroken-hunter]

Thank you for making this!

[@jaimlawson]

Well, this was my excitement for my Sat night. Thanks :)

[@billygamer3941]

"Science works because of its malleability," stated at the end of the program, well summarizes the whole presentation. The program is well done being clear and well documented. Enjoyable, too, are the film clips from the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s, movies many of us viewed in our science classes 🙂.

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Thank you for this excellent overview!

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Great Work! Really liked this video

[@Chemistorian]

Thanks for watching, I’m glad you enjoyed it! Plenty more to come in the future 😁

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Really beautiful content. I love to watch it

[@ivanbumaschny3758]

Spectacular video! Watched from start to finish at launch hour at work, and then again at night. Quick recomendation: upon your mention of the black body radiation, it was most commonly known, at that times, as the "Ultraviolet Catastrophe" where theory suggested that the spectral radiation wavelength in the ultraviolet spectrum of glowing metalic objects should've been infinite (meaning, in mundane terms, that they should emit infinite energy at uv levels). It was solved by the grandfather of quantum mechanics, the great Max Planck, by proposing a new theorical model with quantized levels of energy (hereby the name quantum). Physics Explained has a marvelous video about the subject, and I suggest you look for and watch it. Anyways, great content!

[@markerguy]

I didn't know that Thompson knew about the orbits and was too close to the Bohr model, thank you for that information

[@jorgearango6108]

Very interesting and well explained. Thank you

[@slehar]

Awesome history, awesome presentation!

[@petasmith6258]

Seems like Rutherford & his students don’t get enough credit for their work.

[@locbabyy619]

You are awesome dude , these videos are crazy

[@williamhoward7121]

Bravo! The best concise history I've found!

[@realpetrmolek]

Liked and subscribed. I have literally nothing to do with chemistry, but this channel is so amazing! Should be played at schools

[@scottdorfler2551]

William Prout was right in a sense. Everything did start with hydrogen. The universe fused hydrogen into heavier and heavier elements in the cores of stars. Also through supernovae and kilonovae. And who knows what's produced in white dwarf mergers, neutron star-white dwarf mergers. blackhole-neutron star mergers. And even blackhole mergers. The universe even created Beryllium and Boron through cosmic ray fission.

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[@calorion]

30:25 I was thinking, "Mosely-isn't that the guy Asimov wrote about?" And then Asimov's face popped on my screen.

[@zachreyhelmberger894]

Fabulous documentary!!

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This is awesome! Great work

[@jondeere5638]

Well done!. Even Henry Moseley, and William Proust were mentioned.

[@fr9714]

What's amazing is the key to understanding the big is in the small. When you go deep into the small you can figure out the bigness of the Universe.

[@robertroy1878]

Impressive presentation.

[@nigelbutler5040]

Chemistry difficult because the history is not given in detail in textbooks.

[@Aaron-jj9no]

Good videos, hope more people see them.

[@VoodooGMusic]

Thank FUCK we called them electrons and not corpuscles... he didn't cook with that one.

[@sisez7820]

that was a fantastic timeline and explainations, thank you!

[@garrett6064]

Although Albert Einstein was mentioned a couple of times for his work discovering quantum theory and the dual nature of light, this video totally skipped over the fact that it was Einstein who proved atoms actually existed in 1905 using Brownian Motion. His famous formula E=MC² also describes that the mass inside an atom converts to energy, which helped give rise to nuclear physics.

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damn. what is with the curie’s and chemistry power couples

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I don’t understand how you’re so underrated! Definitely deserved a sub

[@fudgepuppyorangecake]

Thanks for calling Rutherford a new Zealander. A lot of sources call British because he did his research in Britain

[@ricardovencio]

amazing class. thank you

[@r-saint]

underrated video

[@andywomack3414]

Epicurus imagined that atoms moved through space and as the did so they would swerve, and it is through the interactions of the particles that determined the nature of matter.

[@Tim-Temple]

After the Scientific community were finally in agreement of the particle they called atoms, it took almost a CENTURY to eventually discover a subatomic particle, they called the electron. That's a very long time in man's understanding of the basic building blocks of life. Given these large time frames for scientific discovery, it's likey science will discover thing's we never knew existed in another hundred years! I wish I could live to see these discoveries.

[@AnalogDude_]

A+ A video that everyone should see, just like Davids Butlers - Atom (4k) video.

[@knotzed]

25:31 i love the voice of this narrator! It reminds me of old tex Avery cartoons!

[@RalphDratman]

This is great! Thank you!

[@mindexplorer6929]

Great work! Thx

[@prabhakarv4193]

Very nice and informative

[@mohammadsohail5684]

More more more more chapters

[@mickcraven980]

I must rewatch.

[@iwantedtohaveabigytnamepsi2007]

perfect video.

[@wylanneely]

It’s crazy how lots of the older scientists were operating off logic and instinct before the methodology to test their hypothesis came out centuries later. Which proved many correct.

[@syntaxerorr]

Great video!

[@bunky8077]

Brilliant mate!

[@spacewolfjr]

Excellent video, I would love to see one on sub-atomic particles

[@jorymil]

I think the reason that the video stops where it it does is that there's no "quark chemistry" as such.

[@phnml8440]

This is what Sheldon wanted to explain to Penny

[@sharkie115]

It's a warm summer evening in Ancient Greece...

[@garyfrancis6193]

Where can I get one of hos? Does it come in kit form? May not need all the parts like lead shielding.

[@MalcolmCooks]

the unique circumstances surrounding the discovery of nuclear fission at the outset of ww2 turn it into something like what philosophy bros call a cogitohazard - we know this bomb could exist, therefore we have to make it

[@tylert9875]

Atoms telling about atoms is just bizzare natiral theory.

[@erictaylor5462]

14:10 I bet if you could bend the beam around really fast you could draw pictures with it. In fact, if you could draw several pictures a second, you could make moving pictures, like a flicker film.

[@jorymil]

It's called television! A picture tube is exactly that: a cathode ray tube with electrically charged paths to deflect electrons onto a fluorescent screen, which gives the picture. The invention was developed by a man named Philo Farnsworth.

[@erictaylor5462]

@@jorymil Yea, I thought it was obvious my comment was sarcasm.

[@KiwiBay2.0]

I've always found it kinda peculiar that Atom ends on -om, and most other particles end in -on. Protom, Electrom, Xenom, Argom, Neom, etcetera sounds more fitting to me.

[@jorymil]

It comes from way back in Greek - the root is "atomos," for "indivisible," but "elektron" refers to amber, which could be electrified. These things were named by scientists of quite a few nationalities, so Greek and Latin were common languages. Sometimes when things don't make sense in English, their root words do.

[@apurbadas5810]

please suggest the names of the best and original books relating to each chapter which is available for online purchase

[@cyrilio]

We need more philosophers to support physics.

[@themorningconstitutional]

Thanks!

[@Chemistorian]

Thanks so much for the support! 🙌