The Division of Adolescent Medicine provides primary and consultation services for adolescents and young adults between 12 and 21 years of age. We have a separate waiting room and examination area for these patients and offer services tailored to their needs and health care issues.
Modern atomic theory is generally said to begin with John Dalton, an English chemist and meteorologist who in 1808 published a book on the atmosphere and the behavior of gases that was entitled A New System of Chemical Philosophy.
The next great step forward in the understanding of atoms was accomplished by John Thomson. Using a cathode ray scope, Thomson determined that all matter, whatever its source, contains particles of the same kind that are much less massive than the atoms of which they form a part.