Who Proposed Molecular Theory?
Who Proposed Molecular Theory? The first ‘molecular” theory (1620): Isaac Beeckman (1588–1637)☆ Who discovered the molecule? The English chemist John Dalton (1766–1844) did much of this work, with significant contributions by the Italian physicist Amedeo Avogadro (1776–1856). It was Avogadro who developed the idea of a fixed number of atoms and molecules in a mole,