Atomic timeline

By chard
  • Democritus
    400

    Democritus

    He thought everything was made up of tiny things called atoms
  • Aristotle
    400

    Aristotle

    He thought that Democritus idea was wrong and that everythings was made up of the 4 elements
  • Period: 400 to

    Atom

  • Isaac Newton

    Isaac Newton

    Proposed a mechanical universe with small solid masses in motion.
  • Antione Lavoisier

    Antione Lavoisier

    He stated that elements are simple substances that can't be broken down
  • Joseph Proust

    Joseph Proust

    He stated that the composition of a substance will always be the same
  • John Dalton

    John Dalton

    Proposed theory of multiple proportions
  • JJ Thomson

    JJ Thomson

    He discovered the electron and the plum pudding model
  • Max Planck

    Max Planck

    stated quantum theory
  • Albert Einstein

    Albert Einstein

    Stated the theory of relativity
  • Ernest Rutherford

    Ernest Rutherford

    Discovered the orbital theory of the atom
  • Niels Bohr

    Niels Bohr

    Quantum Theory of Matter
  • James Chadwick

    James Chadwick

    Discovered the Neutron