A Chemist Explains the ENTIRE History of Atomic Theory (in 48 Minutes)

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    #science #chemistry #history #atomictheory #oppenheimer #education
    Timestamps:
    0:00 - Introduction
    2:09 - Chapter 1 (The Philosophy)
    4:59 - Chapter 2 (The Solid Sphere)
    12:07 - Chapter 3 (The Electron)
    17:26 - Chapter 4 (The Nucleus)
    21:10 - Chapter 5 (The Shells)
    25:08 - Chapter 6 (Isotopes)
    28:46 - Chapter 7 (The Proton)
    31:53 - Chapter 8 (A Particle or a Wave?)
    36:48 - Chapter 9 (The Neutron)
    42:16 - Chapter 10 (The Atomic Age)
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КОМЕНТАРІ • 224

  • @ValensBellator
    @ValensBellator 6 місяців тому +240

    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
      @Chemistorian  5 місяців тому +37

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

    • @CountBifford
      @CountBifford 2 місяці тому +15

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

    • @kallewirsch2263
      @kallewirsch2263 2 місяці тому +1

      @@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
      @CliffSedge-nu5fv Місяць тому +25

      ​@@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
      @CliffSedge-nu5fv Місяць тому

      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.

  • @neoqueto
    @neoqueto Місяць тому +111

    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
      @annoyingbstard9407 Місяць тому +2

      Who’s she then?

    • @MagdalenaSlay
      @MagdalenaSlay Місяць тому +14

      @@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
      @dibaldgyfm9933 15 годин тому

      ​@@annoyingbstard9407
      Marie Curie

  • @dk6024
    @dk6024 Місяць тому +109

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

    • @KipIngram
      @KipIngram Місяць тому +10

      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
      @TS-jm7jm Місяць тому +6

      ​@@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
      @daltongalloway Місяць тому +3

      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
      @Weisior Місяць тому +3

      @@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
      @daltongalloway Місяць тому +1

      @@Weisior definitely

  • @bobwagemakers5055
    @bobwagemakers5055 Місяць тому +53

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

  • @alastairzotos
    @alastairzotos 7 місяців тому +69

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

    • @Chemistorian
      @Chemistorian  7 місяців тому +8

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

  • @BSIII
    @BSIII 5 місяців тому +35

    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 🧙🏿‍♂️⚗️🧪

    • @ArchimedesSaunders
      @ArchimedesSaunders 2 місяці тому +1

      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". ;)

  • @jevogroni4829
    @jevogroni4829 Місяць тому +9

    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

  • @mohammadasaad1508
    @mohammadasaad1508 24 дні тому +3

    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
      @scottydu81 17 днів тому +1

      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.

  • @joels310
    @joels310 5 місяців тому +9

    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.

  • @naicul_22
    @naicul_22 Місяць тому +10

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

  • @steveholmes1736
    @steveholmes1736 Місяць тому +5

    I just discovered your channel. It’s people like you that make UA-cam worth exploring. I find your latest videos just fascinating. I’m sitting up here on my porch in West Virginia, having a ball watching what you’ve created. Thank you, my man!

    • @Chemistorian
      @Chemistorian  Місяць тому +2

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

    • @steveholmes1736
      @steveholmes1736 Місяць тому +2

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

  • @TheSilmarillian
    @TheSilmarillian 6 місяців тому +10

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

  • @andrewleonardi3351
    @andrewleonardi3351 4 місяці тому +30

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

    • @Chemistorian
      @Chemistorian  4 місяці тому +7

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

    • @andrewleonardi3351
      @andrewleonardi3351 4 місяці тому +5

      It looks gorgeous!@@Chemistorian

  • @kantanlabs3859
    @kantanlabs3859 Місяць тому +3

    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!

  • @robcat2075
    @robcat2075 Місяць тому +3

    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.

  • @shripadbabrekar3023
    @shripadbabrekar3023 6 місяців тому +21

    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

  • @JonathanLit
    @JonathanLit Місяць тому +6

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

  • @Lurkzz
    @Lurkzz Місяць тому +3

    Wow this channel is amazing, as someone very interested in history but also physics and chemistry, (just as a side hobby, I am by no means an academic) this checks all the boxes for a subscription!
    Thanks!

  • @Zapleek
    @Zapleek Місяць тому +1

    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.

  • @nektu5435
    @nektu5435 Місяць тому +1

    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.

  • @BobWidlefish
    @BobWidlefish 2 місяці тому +9

    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!

  • @billygamer3941
    @billygamer3941 Місяць тому +1

    "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 🙂.

  • @magneticsnail7218
    @magneticsnail7218 7 місяців тому +5

    Great video, thanks for making it

  • @adrienadrien5940
    @adrienadrien5940 Місяць тому +2

    Incredible work, the way the video is put together is brilliant !

  • @simonguitton
    @simonguitton Місяць тому +2

    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.

  • @meltdown6165
    @meltdown6165 Місяць тому +4

    Thank you for this excellent overview!

  • @slehar
    @slehar Місяць тому +5

    Awesome history, awesome presentation!

  • @yousufabbasabdullah4797
    @yousufabbasabdullah4797 7 місяців тому +3

    Really beautiful content. I love to watch it

  • @lawrencelimburger9160
    @lawrencelimburger9160 6 місяців тому +10

    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!

  • @LarsOfMars.
    @LarsOfMars. Місяць тому +3

    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

  • @hawkbartril3016
    @hawkbartril3016 2 місяці тому +4

    Excellent, that I loved and that's after watching a couple of others. Which I enjoyed bigtime. I can see that I'll be spending some time here. If you read this, then hey that was very well done. It must take quite a bit of research to put a video out for veiw. Please keep it up. I've been looking for something like this. Thanks.

  • @JR-mj8ph
    @JR-mj8ph Місяць тому +2

    This is awesome! Great work

  • @feysalbashir9128
    @feysalbashir9128 7 місяців тому +4

    Great Work! Really liked this video

    • @Chemistorian
      @Chemistorian  7 місяців тому +4

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

  • @GRAHAMAUS
    @GRAHAMAUS Місяць тому +1

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

  • @ivanbumaschny3758
    @ivanbumaschny3758 Місяць тому +1

    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!

  • @locbabyy619
    @locbabyy619 2 місяці тому +4

    You are awesome dude , these videos are crazy

  • @zachreyhelmberger894
    @zachreyhelmberger894 Місяць тому +4

    Fabulous documentary!!

  • @motrebal
    @motrebal 6 місяців тому +4

    Very Pro, Well done

  • @Grateful92
    @Grateful92 6 днів тому +1

    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🎉❤

  • @mindexplorer6929
    @mindexplorer6929 Місяць тому +4

    Great work! Thx

  • @Aaron-jj9no
    @Aaron-jj9no Місяць тому +3

    Good videos, hope more people see them.

  • @realpetrmolek
    @realpetrmolek Місяць тому +1

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

  • @syntaxerorr
    @syntaxerorr Місяць тому +1

    Great video!

  • @fudgepuppyorangecake
    @fudgepuppyorangecake Місяць тому +4

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

  • @ricardovencio
    @ricardovencio 2 місяці тому +3

    amazing class. thank you

  • @blank_3768
    @blank_3768 2 місяці тому +5

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

  • @rickyrico80
    @rickyrico80 Місяць тому +8

    Stumbled into this video and 5 minutes in you got a sub. This is quality content 👌

  • @RalphDratman
    @RalphDratman Місяць тому +2

    This is great! Thank you!

  • @bunky8077
    @bunky8077 Місяць тому +1

    Brilliant mate!

  • @lucashinch
    @lucashinch 5 днів тому

    Just discovered this channel, great documentary

  • @iwantedtohaveabigytnamepsi2007
    @iwantedtohaveabigytnamepsi2007 Місяць тому +4

    perfect video.

  • @kered13
    @kered13 Місяць тому +6

    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).

  • @andywomack3414
    @andywomack3414 2 місяці тому +2

    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.

  • @ArchimedesSaunders
    @ArchimedesSaunders 2 місяці тому +7

    Excellent video, presentation, editing, narrative. You deserve MANY more subs. Shared to my social media sites, hope it helps!

    • @Chemistorian
      @Chemistorian  2 місяці тому +4

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

  • @vinniepeterss
    @vinniepeterss 2 місяці тому +3

    love this ❤

  • @robertroy1878
    @robertroy1878 Місяць тому +1

    Impressive presentation.

  • @nonobobo4606
    @nonobobo4606 Місяць тому +2

    Banger of a video

  • @alfadog67
    @alfadog67 Місяць тому +4

    This was an utterly wonderful video!! Thank you for taking the time! I'll be a new subscriber!

  • @mickcraven980
    @mickcraven980 Місяць тому +1

    I must rewatch.

  • @DavidMcMillan888
    @DavidMcMillan888 Місяць тому +1

    This excellent channel summarises the wide but numerically limited general understanding of science. It also underscores the extraordinary century 1950-1950.
    The period means so much to me as I grew and learned with this time of discovery as part of my grandparents’ lives. It was wonderful that until the 1980s, as an ordinary human, I could at least follow the processes of almost everything made by extending published writings.
    I’m sure our generation would give almost anything to return 500 years in the future. Will the sense of being part of the experimental apparatus be totally lost? Will future generations understand only perhaps 1% of how the world works or will our recent past be viewed still as extraordinary?

  • @scottdorfler2551
    @scottdorfler2551 Місяць тому +1

    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.

  • @jorymil
    @jorymil Місяць тому

    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.

  • @r-saint
    @r-saint Місяць тому +5

    underrated video

  • @joseywales6168
    @joseywales6168 Місяць тому +2

    We'll make it out :)

  • @sisez7820
    @sisez7820 Місяць тому +3

    that was a fantastic timeline and explainations, thank you!

  • @spacewolfjr
    @spacewolfjr Місяць тому

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

    • @jorymil
      @jorymil Місяць тому +2

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

  • @themorningconstitutional
    @themorningconstitutional Місяць тому +2

    Thanks!

    • @Chemistorian
      @Chemistorian  Місяць тому +2

      Thanks so much for the support! 🙌

  • @vinniepeterss
    @vinniepeterss 2 місяці тому +2

    new sub added!

  • @cyrilio
    @cyrilio 2 місяці тому +1

    We need more philosophers to support physics.

  • @AnalogDude_
    @AnalogDude_ Місяць тому +1

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

  • @Mark-ce9xh
    @Mark-ce9xh Місяць тому

    How did Dalton figure out the assumptions in chapter 2?
    I understand from chapter 3 the electron onwards.

  • @MalcolmCooks
    @MalcolmCooks 22 дні тому

    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

  • @spacejunk2186
    @spacejunk2186 Місяць тому

    After that, they discovered quarks, gluons, bosons, and different vibration states of the nuclei. It is crazy what people can figure out by just smashing things into each other.

  • @wilee.coyote5298
    @wilee.coyote5298 Місяць тому +2

    So, our universe is the result of someone's chemistry experiment gone wrong???

  • @ArchimedesSaunders
    @ArchimedesSaunders 2 місяці тому +1

    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
      @jorymil Місяць тому

      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.

  • @TheGreatAwesome
    @TheGreatAwesome 2 місяці тому +1

    At 32:40, the video says that people have wavelengths, but the bigger the mass of matter, the smaller the wavelength. Does this mean that we have a high frequency wavelength while electrons have a low frequency wavelength?

    • @ivoivanov7407
      @ivoivanov7407 2 місяці тому +3

      Frequency and wavelength are in inverse relation. The longer is the wavelength, the lower is the frequency. So, electron being smal have high frequency, short(er) wavelength, while humans have long, low frequency wavelengths.

    • @DeJay7
      @DeJay7 2 місяці тому +3

      And not only that ^^^, but the so called de Broglie wavelength for any object of significant mass is so large compared to the length of the object itself, that it, in fact, does not REALLY exist.

    • @frisofeenstra3995
      @frisofeenstra3995 Місяць тому +1

      Things are even more funny then that. Indeed humans can also described as waves, with un incredible high frequency. Now these waves also have a amplitude, which indicates the problability of observing the object at a location. Now the amplitude quickly becomes very small, which is why humans, are normally observed, where they are. But since it only becomes small, and not zero, you can observe someone, for instance, in a bar, when others, observe him at work. All part of quantum physics.

  • @safebox36
    @safebox36 13 днів тому

    It's partially ironic, at least in English, that colourblindness is called Daltonism in other languages.
    Since Daltonism is the name of the algorithm used in some games and software to _correct_ for colourblindness, not simulate it for designers.

  • @phnml8440
    @phnml8440 2 місяці тому +6

    This is what Sheldon wanted to explain to Penny

    • @sharkie115
      @sharkie115 Місяць тому +2

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

  • @GRAHAMAUS
    @GRAHAMAUS Місяць тому +1

    Given how much he advanced the state of atomic science, it seems utterly wrong to me that Dalton is not honoured with an element in his name. 'Daltonium', it even sounds right. Surely some of the scientists who are honoured with an element named after them did less than this man?

    • @jorymil
      @jorymil Місяць тому

      Dalton has a unit of measurement named after him: the force between two atoms is often measured in Daltons, rather than Newtons.

  • @erictaylor5462
    @erictaylor5462 Місяць тому

    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
      @jorymil Місяць тому

      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
      @erictaylor5462 Місяць тому +2

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

  • @TK0_23_
    @TK0_23_ Місяць тому +2

    I am stunned and frankly disappointed to hear of Thompsons description of atomic structure. It seems disrespectful to talk about Thompsons Plum Pudding model and not at least mention his ideas on electron orbitals.

  • @Tim-Temple
    @Tim-Temple 28 днів тому

    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.

  • @petasmith6258
    @petasmith6258 26 днів тому +1

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

  • @joe1569
    @joe1569 Місяць тому +3

    Subscribe

  • @Odiainjapan
    @Odiainjapan 6 місяців тому +3

    Hello.... Are you currently in your postdoc? Or assistant professor? Can I contact you in anyway. I too love history of chemistry and want to do such studies. If I can contact you in anyway that would be too inspiring to me.

    • @Chemistorian
      @Chemistorian  6 місяців тому +9

      Since finishing my PhD, I no longer work in academia. Now, I take a personal interest in continuing to learn about chemistry and history, and this channel is all about sharing that interest with you guys! Best of luck with your studies👨‍🔬

    • @Odiainjapan
      @Odiainjapan 6 місяців тому +2

      @@Chemistorian thank you for your reply. I hope you'll be successful in what you are aiming for with your amazing passion and the sense of gratitude. Thank you again for sharing it all so beautifully 😊.

  • @phantom2753
    @phantom2753 Місяць тому +1

    hello I know you might not read this comment there is a probability more than 0 that you would read it so just wanted to say thanks for making this video it was one of the most fascinating things i watched more fascinating than what any fictional movie could capture

    • @Chemistorian
      @Chemistorian  Місяць тому +1

      Glad you enjoyed it, thanks for watching!

  • @suspicionofdeceit
    @suspicionofdeceit Місяць тому

    When the electron jumps to another orbit does it occur faster than speed of light.?

    • @jorymil
      @jorymil Місяць тому +1

      The Bohr model is inaccurate in this sense: the electron doesn't necessarily change position, and its position cannot be measured exactly. The Schrödinger/Heisenberg/Dirac model better explains what's going on.

  • @martyzielinski1442
    @martyzielinski1442 Місяць тому

    Art Garfunkel @0:020

  • @johnsalem7765
    @johnsalem7765 21 день тому

    Problem w electrons as waves, waves require a medium

  • @89volvowithlazers
    @89volvowithlazers 27 днів тому

    Everything builds on the previous only a matter of time...humans be like "mmm how big a boom can I imagine"

  • @LooseGripHandle
    @LooseGripHandle Місяць тому

    Imagine how terrifying the first quantum bomb will be.

    • @jorymil
      @jorymil Місяць тому +2

      Well... all bombs rely on quantum mechanics, and quantum mechanics itself explains nuclear fission and fusion, so there's no new "quantum bomb" that's likely to be created.

  • @robcat2075
    @robcat2075 Місяць тому

    11:20 How could Prout in 1816 be talking about helium when helium wasn't discovered until 1868?

    • @Chemistorian
      @Chemistorian  Місяць тому +5

      You’re right, he wouldn’t know about helium. I was just demonstrating Prout’s ideas using our modern knowledge of the periodic table.

  • @abacaabaca8131
    @abacaabaca8131 14 днів тому

    Why the nuclear bomb is not called neutron bomb ?
    Since it was bombarded by neutron/s, and can much lighter atom than Uranium be split into other atom ?
    Let say Carbon. Can any arbitrary neutron (that come from any atom) split this Carbon atom into different smaller atoms like we can see from Uranium when it becomes Berylium.

  • @tylert9875
    @tylert9875 22 дні тому

    Atoms telling about atoms is just bizzare natiral theory.

  • @ozzyjames87
    @ozzyjames87 3 місяці тому

    For better or worse we indeed reached the atomic age.

  • @WhileTrueCode
    @WhileTrueCode 6 днів тому

    i bet in an unknown handful of years, we will look back upon these preceding times and think "rofl what a meaningless generic catch-all term _Particle_ was"

  • @richarddeese1087
    @richarddeese1087 Місяць тому

    Fission - it's like, splitsville, man! Far out. tavi.

  • @JamesVestal-dz5qm
    @JamesVestal-dz5qm 16 днів тому

    Notice how the history of mathematics started with the ratio of the circumference of the circle to the area. Atoms were first conceptualized as spheres, and people started calculating ratios of spheres. The circle is a symbol of infinity in the human mind. What separates people from other animals? Some philosophers think the perception of infinity. I remember when Sam Revolinski developed a dimethyl tryptamine liquid liquid extraction and purification process. He ordered the tree bark containing solid DMT on amazon. Then, he submerged the bark in acetone solvent. After 3 days, he set the acetone and DMT solution under the air conditioner and allowed 3 days for the acetone solvent to evaporate, leaving a DMT powder. That's about the point mmm lemonz said the word of God comes before the US constitution. Chris Cramer had stinky breath one day. Do all people perceive that odors are ephemeral?

  • @TheWmham
    @TheWmham 22 дні тому

    I know it's paradolia but anyone else see the face looking right in the clouds at 2:21

  • @vinniepeterss
    @vinniepeterss 2 місяці тому +2

    ❤❤