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Which scientist is credited with developing the first scientific atomic theory?
John Dalton
Joseph Proust
Ernest Rutherford
J. J. Thomson

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John Dalton. He formulated the first modern scientific atomic theory (early 1800s), proposing that matter is made of indivisible atoms, each element has identical atoms with characteristic weights, and compounds are fixed combinations of different atoms.