Having mastered the subject gave him some leverage to use against a growing group of physicists known as atomists who were using statistical models along with so called ‘atoms’ to predict ...

Max Planck initially favoured to the view that atoms could not exist, whereas Ludwig Boltzmann and James C. Maxwell were convinced atomists. It was not until 1900 that experiments on rarefied gases, ...

Weldon, Stephen P. 2002. Current Bibliography of the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences 2002. Isis, Vol. 93, Issue. , p. 1. Weldon, Stephen P. 2005 ...