Atomic Theory Timeline

  • 460

    Democritus

    Democritus
    460 B.C. Democritus, an Ancient Greek Philosopher created the first atomic theory.
  • Declaration of Independence

    Declaration of Independence
    Delcaration of Independence
  • Joseph Proust

    Joseph Proust
    Came up with the Law of Constant Composition, which stated that the composition of a substance is always the same.
  • John Dalton

    John Dalton
    In 1803, John Dalton came up with the atomic theory that said, all matter was composed of small indivisible particles termed atoms, atoms of a given element possess specific characteristics and weight, and there are three types of atoms which are simple, compound, and complex.
  • Civil War

    Civil War
    Civil War
  • Henri Becquerel

    Henri Becquerel
    Henri Becquerel discovered natural radioactivity and showed that the rays emitted by uranium, caused gases to ionize aand this dependedon the type ofX-ray in and could be deflected by electric or magnetic fields.
  • J.J. Thompson

    J.J. Thompson
    In the year of 1897, J.J. Thomson discovered the electron and created the cathode ray, which passes electric currents throught gases at a low pressure.
  • Paper Clip

    Paper Clip
    Paper Clip invented
  • Max Planck

    Max Planck
    Plank proposed that energy had a resonator of frequency (v) is hv where (h) is a universal constant, which is now known as Planck's constant.
  • First airplane to take off

    First airplane to take off
    Wilbur and Orville Wrightsucceeded in flying an airplane they built for 12 seconds
  • Ernest Rutherford

    Ernest Rutherford
    Rutherford came up with a new atomic model that showed the atom is almost empty but protons and neutrons are inside a nucleus located in the middle.
  • Neils Bohr

    Neils Bohr
    Introduced that electrons orbit around the nucleus of an atom.
  • World War I

    July 28, 1914 - November 11,1918
  • Robert Millikan

    Robert Millikan
    Millikan found out what the charge was carried by an electron by using the elegant "falling-drop" method and that it was true for all electrons.
  • Louis de Broglie

    Louis de Broglie
    Louis de Broglie claimed that particles and electrons all have waves, just like light.
  • Werner Heisenberg

    Werner Heisenberg
    Heisenberg stated that you cannot give an electron a position in space at a given time, nor follow it in its orbit,
  • Erwin Schrödinger

    Erwin Schrödinger
    With the help of some of Albert Einsteins notes, Erwin Schrödinger began to think of ways to describe how an electron moves in a wave-like motion. In the year 1926, he proposed a theory using Neil Bohr's atomic model, which then became known as Schrödinger's wave equation
  • The Gret Depression

    The Gret Depression
    The Great Depression
  • James Chadwick

    James Chadwick
    Chadwick discovers neutrons exist and come to the conclusion that they are in the nucleus with the protons and have no charge.
  • World War II

    September 1, 1939 -September 16, 1945
  • NASA

    NASA
    NASA is founded on October 3, 1958
  • Kennedy Assassination

    Kennedy Assassination
    Kennedy Assassination
  • Apollo 11 Moon Landing

    Apollo 11 Moon Landing
    Apollo 11 Moon Landing
  • Aristotle

    Aristotle
    384 BC. Aristotle, an Ancient Greek philosopher and scientist believed that air, earth, water, and fire ccould be broken down into more matter.