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Lavoisier conducted experiments that showed that respiration was essentially a slow combustion of organic material using inhaled oxygen.
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Developed atomic theory.
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Created his own law called the law of definite proportions and also the elements.
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Scottish chemist whose writings contributed to the early spread of Dalton's atomic theory.
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Discovered the element thallium, helium, and inventor of Crookes radiometer.
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Discovered natural radio activity, as well as nuclear radiation.
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Researched the measurement of the charge on the electron.
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Curie is known to the world as the scientist who discovered radioactive metals .
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Developed Rutherford's nuclear atom.
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Contributed to understanding atomic structure and quantum mechanics.
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Developed the application of x-ray specta to study atomic structures.
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Discovered the neutron.
