Question

John dalton was the first person recorded as thinking that matter was ultimately composed of atoms. true or false

Answer 1

Democritus of abdera  proosed the idea of an atoms in 5th century BC

Answer 2

The statement is false. It was Democritus, a Greek philosopher, who first theorized that matter was ultimately composed of atoms. His ideas were not widely accepted in his time (460-370 B.C), but during the 19th century, John Dalton proposed this theory and gained broad acceptance.