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Who was the first known contributor to the atomic theory?
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Who was the first known contributor to the atomic theory?

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Democritus

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Democritus came up with the idea of indivisible atoms. The earliest known proponent of anything resembling modern atomic theory was the ancient Greek thinker Democritus. He proposed the existence of indivisible atoms as a response to the arguments of Parmenides and the paradoxes of Zeno.

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