Maël Bathfield graduated in chemistry from the University Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL), France, in 2003, before undertaking a PhD in polymer chemistry. He defended his thesis in 2006 and since then he occupied several post-doctoral positions at Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Chimie de Montpellier, France. During his PhD, a scientific controversy in a specific polymerization process led him to be interested, first, in history of chemical kinetics theories. Then, since chemistry and physics merge together at the fundamental level, he was rapidly interested in the construction of the modern atomic theory. He is mostly self-educated in history and…

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