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Discovered the law of conservation of matter in chemical reactions, which stated that matter cannot be created or destroyed in an isolated system. He also stated that elements and compounds are two different things.
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Stated that the force between two charges is proportional to the product of the charges.
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Created the atomic theory: all matter is composed of atoms
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Created the Crooks tube which demonstratrated cathode rays that travel in straight lines and create heat when they hit certain materials.
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Discovered the electron and the plum pudding model of an atom.
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The Curies discovered polonium and radium.
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Planck created quantum theory which states that
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Stated that light was created from different particles, and introduced the theory of relativity.
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Discovered the electric charge of an electron...negative.
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Rutherford discovered that all the mass of an atom is a small positivley charged ball in the middle of the atom.
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Bohr stated that the electrons in an atom moved around the nucleus in big orbits. He also introduced the Bohr atomic model.
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He created the first detector of alpha particals and other radiation.
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Created the Shrodinger equation: describes the form of the probability waves that show the motion of small particles and how the waves are changed by outside influences.
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Chadwick discovered the neutrally charged neutron.
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Discovered nuclear fission where an atom breaks apart into two seperate nuclei. He also experimented with uranium.
