They say that the first studies on atoms date back to ancient Greece, where the most studious investigated into how many parts everything could be divided into, and after long studies they concluded that things could be divided up to a limit, leaving fragments at the end very small and imperceptible, which they called atoms (indivisible).

Greek atom

Several centuries later, with the advancement of new discoveries and the impetus of the old universities, other scholars also asked what would atoms be like? And faced with the same impossibility of seeing them, the eminent thinkers of the time drew them as best they could.

Thomson's atomic model

Rutherford's atomic model

Bohr's atomic model

However, each new model of the atom was nothing more than the result of the creativity and imagination of its creators, who in life never saw an atom, and all ended up drawing an astrophysical-classical collage typical of their time.

How to see an atom?

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