April
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/ 2022
While John Dalton, an English chemist and physicist, is the man credited today with the development of atomic theory at the turn of the 19th century, a theory of atoms was actually formulated 2,500 years before Dalton by an Indian sage and philosopher, known as Acharya Kanad. [[{"type":"media","view_mode":"media_large","fid":"95598","attributes":{"alt":"The Indian sage, Acharya Kanad, got his name from a story about him collecting grains of rice strewn on the ground. (wongvaris / Adobe Stock)","class":"media-image","height":"405","style":"width: 610px; height: 405px;","typeof":"foaf:Image","width":"610"}}]] The Indian sage, Acharya Kanad, got his name from a story about him collecting grains of rice strewn on the ground. ( wongvaris / Adobe Stock) Acharya Kanad – Indian Sage and Teacher of Small Particles Acharya Kanad was born in 600 BC in Prabhas
