Atom Timeline

  • Dalton Model

    Dalton Model
    The British chemist John Dalton discoverd that each element is made up of atoms. He also found that different elements have different masses.
  • Thomas Model

    Thomas Model
    A little less than 100 years later another British scientist J.J. Thomson created a atom model. He created a new model, saying that an atom is a positively charge sphere that includes electrons inside.
  • Nagaoka Model

    Nagaoka Model
    Physicist Hantaro Nagaoka is from Japan and created a model that showed the electrons revolving around the sphere that has the electric charge.
  • Rutherford Model

    Rutherford Model
    The British physicist Ernest Ruthford stated that the atom is basically an empty space where electrons orbit around.
  • Bohr Model

    A Danish Physicist Niels Bohr introduced a model that can show electrons moving in specific shells and layers rather than randomly moving around the atom.
  • Chadwick Model

    Chadwick Model
    British physicist James Chadwick discoverd the neutron. This described why atoms were heavier than the mass of their protons and electrons..
  • Present Model

    Electrons form a negatively charged cloud that is around the nucleus. It is impossible to tell where a electron is on a specif time.