chem timeline miles taylor

  • Aristotle
    300

    Aristotle

    300 BC Rejected Democritus' idea of atoms ad said that all things were made of proportions of water, earth, fire, and air.
  • Democritus
    400

    Democritus

    400 BC
    Came up with the first theory that everything is made up entirely of indivisible elements called atoms
  • Isaac Newton

    Isaac Newton

    Early 1700's AC Said that the the universe is mechanical and is composed of small moving masses
  • Antione Lavoisier

    Antione Lavoisier

    Late 1700's Clarified the concept of elements being simple substances tat cannot be broken down
  • Joseph Proust

    Joseph Proust

    Early 1800's
    Said that the composition of a substance was always the same [constant composition]
  • John Dalton

    John Dalton

    Early 1800's Proposed theory of multiple proportions
    it said that all matter is made of atoms, that atoms are indivisible and indestructible ,that all atoms of a given element are identical in mass and properties ,that compounds are formed by a combination of two or more different kinds of atoms, and that a chemical reaction is a rearrangement of atoms.
  • JJ Thomson

    JJ Thomson

    Around 1890
    Discovered the electron and created the plum pudding model
  • Max Planck

    Max Planck

    Invented quantum theory
  • Ernest Rutherford

    Ernest Rutherford

    Discovered the orbital theory of the atom
  • Albert Einstein

    Albert Einstein

    Created the theory of relativity
  • Niels Bohr

    Niels Bohr

    Quantum Theory of Matter
  • James Chadwick

    James Chadwick

    Discovered the Neutron