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Atom History by Erin Wentzien

  • Democritus
    Jan 1, 1000

    Democritus

    The first person to propose the idea that matter was not infinitely divisible.
  • Aristotle
    Jan 1, 1000

    Aristotle

    No smallest part of matter and different substances had different proporations of Fire water earth and rain.
  • Antonie Lavosier

    Antonie Lavosier

    Chemical elements can't be destory or created just combined.
  • Whiskey Rebellion

    Whiskey Rebellion

    It was a tax protest in the United States.
  • Joseph Proust

    Joseph Proust

    created the law of constant composition
  • John Dalton

    John Dalton

    Stated that all matter is made of atoms, atomes of a given element a unique weight and characteristic, and three kinds of atoms complex, compound, and simple.
  • Amadeo Avagadro

    Amadeo Avagadro

    Temperature and pressure equals volume of gases containing the same number of atoms.
  • Iowa

    Iowa

    Became part of the union.
  • William Crooks

    William Crooks

    vestigated flows of particules through gases
  • Henri Becquerel

    Henri Becquerel

    Chmicals spontaneously decompose and give off pentrating rays.
  • Madame Curie

    Madame Curie

    Discovered two new elements that helped discoveries on radiation.
  • J. J. Tomson

    J. J. Tomson

    Suggested that atoms were built on more a fundamental unit.
  • Max Planck

    Max Planck

    quantum nature of energy
  • Albert Einstein

    Albert Einstein

    E=mc^2
  • Ernest Rutherford

    Ernest Rutherford

    Describing the atom as having a central positive nucleus surrounded by negative orbiting electrons.
  • Robert Millikan

    Robert Millikan

    Made electrons have an electrical charge
  • Titanic Sink

    Titanic Sink

    The Titanic sunk when it an ice berg on it's way from England to New York.
  • Henry Moseley

    Henry Moseley

    Atoms contains in its necleus a number of positive nuclear charges that equals to atomic number on the periodic table.
  • Niels Boher

    Niels Boher

    Electrons travel in discrete orbits around the atom's nucleus.
  • Erwin Schrodinger

    Erwin Schrodinger

    describe the behavior of electrions
  • Louis de Broglie

    Louis de Broglie

    Electrons move as a wave in some conditions
  • The Great Depression

    The Great Depression

    Was the decade that preceded World War I and it was an economic depression.
  • Werner Heisenberg

    Werner Heisenberg

    The position and engery of a particle are only a certain amount.
  • James Chadwick

    James Chadwick

    Found neutrons
  • Pearl Harbor

    Pearl Harbor

    An attack on the United States by Japan which brought the U.S. into WWII.
  • D-day

    D-day

    Allied invasion during World War II.
  • John F. K. assassination

    John F. K. assassination

    Was shot down in a parade that he was going with his wife.
  • Landing on the moon

    Landing on the moon

    Neil Armstrong was the first person to set foot on the moo.
  • Oklahoma Bombing

    Oklahoma Bombing

    It was the most destructive terroism on american soil until 9-11 by taking 168 live and of that was 19 killed under the age of 6.
  • 9-11

    9-11

    A plane was flown into the world trade center.