FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE聽|聽April 09, 2015
How can you see an atom? (video)
WASHINGTON, April 9, 2015 鈥� Since ancient Greek times, philosophers and scientists have pondered the atom. For a couple thousand years, humans could only speculate on the structure and other properties of the smallest unit of matter. It wasn鈥檛 until the 1980s that chemists saw individual atoms. Bestselling author Sam Kean takes us through the nearly 2,400-year quest to see the atom in a new episode of the Reactions sub-series, 鈥淟egends of Chemistry.鈥� Check out the video here: .
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