Atom

  • Democritus
    Oct 2, 1000

    Democritus

    460bc-370bc first proposed the atom theory but left many questions
  • Aristotle
    Oct 2, 1002

    Aristotle

    he classified animals in 335 bc
  • James Hargreaves

    James Hargreaves

    the spinning jenny
  • James Watt

    James Watt

    first truly reliable steam engine
  • Antoine Lavoisier

    Antoine Lavoisier

    recogized and named oxygen
  • Edmund Cartwright

    Edmund Cartwright

    invented the power loom
  • Eli Whitney

    Eli Whitney

    the cotton gin
  • Joseph Proust

    Joseph Proust

    discovered the law of constant composition
  • John Dalton

    John Dalton

    he proposed his Atomic theory
  • Amedeo Avogadro

    Amedeo Avogadro

    hypothesized that equal volumes of gases at the same temperature and pressure contain equal numbers of molecules
  • Samuel Morse

    Samuel Morse

    created the telegraph
  • Elias Howe

    Elias Howe

    the sewing machine
  • Jean Lenoir

    Jean Lenoir

    the internal combustion engine
  • Alexander Graham Bell

    Alexander Graham Bell

    the telephone
  • Thomas Edison

    Thomas Edison

    created the phonograph
  • JJ Thompsen

    JJ Thompsen

    The idea that electricity was transmitted by a charged smallest unit related to the atom was put forward
  • Madame Curie

    Madame Curie

    found how to make x rays
  • Henri Becquerel

    Henri Becquerel

    was the discoverer of radioactivity
  • William Crookes

    William Crookes

    found the element thallium and invented the radiometer
  • Robert millikan

    Robert millikan

    performed an experiment that measured the charge on a single electron
  • Henry Moseley

    Henry Moseley

    he found the atomic number of atoms which helped put together periodic table
  • Max Plank

    Max Plank

    discovered the quantom theory
  • Albert Einstein

    Albert Einstein

    found E=Mc squared i
  • Niels Bohr

    Niels Bohr

    explained what happens inside an atom
  • Erwin Schrodinger

    Erwin Schrodinger

    made a mathematical model for the distribution of electrons in an atom
  • Werner Heisenberg

    Werner Heisenberg

    proposed uncertainty relation
  • Louis de Brogile

    Louis de Brogile

    discovered wave nature of electrons
  • Ernest rutheford

    Ernest rutheford

    He discovered alpha and beta rays
  • James Dewar

    James Dewar

    Invention of twinkie
  • James Chadwick

    James Chadwick

    discovered the neutron