Do you like blueberry muffins 🧁, or chocolate chip cookies 🍪, or if you're really posh... plum pudding 🍮?

Discover how these desserts influenced the way scientist looked at the structure and the very nature of all matter.

Follow the story, from how a word that was coined in ancient Greece influenced a British chemist, leading to a new field of scientific inquiry.
From how experiments with negatively charged particles, created an atomic model named after a dessert, and how the movement of particles eventually disproved the model.

ADAPTED from the book: Elemental by Tim James (chapters 2 and 3)

[0:00] - introduction
[0:34] - Chapter one
[3:33] - chapter two
[6:43] - chapter three
[10:11] - chapter four
[15:03] - epilogue