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Atom Timeline

  • Ptolemy
    150

    Ptolemy

    produced the genetic model of the solar system
  • Aristotle (B.C.)
    300

    Aristotle (B.C.)

    all matter was made up of fire, earth, air, and water.
  • Democritus (B.C.)
    400

    Democritus (B.C.)

    He came up with the idea that everything could be broken down into smaller pieces (atoms).
  • Leucippus (B.C.)
    500

    Leucippus (B.C.)

    the earliest Greek to develop the theory of atomism — the idea that everything is composed entirely of various imperishable, indivisible elements called atoms.
  • Luca Pacioli
    Oct 8, 1494

    Luca Pacioli

    first codification of the Double-entry bookkeeping system
  • Oct 8, 1543

    Andreas Vesalius

    pioneering research into human anatomy
  • Antoine Lavoisier

    Antoine Lavoisier

    found elements that make up water and named them
  • Joseph Priestley

    Joseph Priestley

    discovered oxygen
  • Joseph Proust

    Joseph Proust

    Law of Constant Composition. Developed the use of hydrogen sulfide as a reagent give results of his chemical analyses in terms of percentage weights.
  • Joseph Gay-Lussac

    Joseph Gay-Lussac

    Created the law of combining volumes
  • John Dalton

    John Dalton

    Believed that the atom was the smallest unit of matter, and couldn't be broken down. He tried to calculate atomic weight of compounds and atomic structures of atoms.
  • Stanislao Cannizzaro

    Stanislao Cannizzaro

    He is remembered today largely for the Cannizzaro reaction and for his influential role in the atomic-weight deliberations of the Karlsruhe Congress.
  • Amedeo Avogadro

    Amedeo Avogadro

    Avogadro’s Hypothesis; states that at the same temperature and pressure, equal volumes of gases contain the same number of molecules or atoms.
  • William Crookes

    William Crookes

    responsible for reconstructing the Cathode Ray, discovered the element thallium and show there is a negative charge in atoms.
  • Dmitri Mendeleev

    Dmitri Mendeleev

    He formulated the Periodic Law, created his own version of the periodic table of elements
  • Madame Curie

    Madame Curie

    the strength of radiation didn’t depend on the compound that was being studied. It only depended on the amount of uranium or thorium. Came to the conclusion that the ability to radiate did not depend on the arrangement of the atoms in a molecule, it must be linked to the interior of the atom itself.
  • J.J. Thomson

    J.J. Thomson

    discovered electrons with a cathode-ray tube, and made the Plum Pudding Model. Used a CRT to experimentally determine the charge to mass ratio (e/m) of an electron =1.759 x 10 8 coulombs/gram.
  • Henri Becquerel

    Henri Becquerel

    Discovered uranium produced x-ray radiation--led discovery of radioactivity; showed atoms can’t change shape or are divisible.
  • Max Planck

    Max Planck

    used the idea of quanta (discrete units of energy) to explain hot glowing matter. founded the Quantum Theory
  • Robert Millikan

    Robert Millikan

    responsible for finding the charge of a single electron; proved that subatomic particles exist.
  • Ernest Rutherford

    Ernest Rutherford

    discovered the nucleus, and created the Planetary System model
  • Henry Moseley

    Henry Moseley

    Found the relationship between wavelengths, what x-rays produced, and atomic number of a metal; known as Mosely's Law.
  • Niels Bohr

    Niels Bohr

    Created a new model that allowed electrons to be outside the nucleus and orbit around the nucleus.
  • Francis William Aston

    Francis William Aston

    invented the mass spectrograph; Discovered a large amount of isotopes--three different kinds of hydrogen atoms.
  • Louis de Broglie

    Louis de Broglie

    Discovered that electrons had a dual nature-similar to both particles and waves.
  • Werner Heisenberg

    Werner Heisenberg

    came up with the uncertainty principle. Described atoms by means of formula connected to the frequencies of spectral lines
  • Erwin Schrödinger

    Erwin Schrödinger

    Viewed electrons as continuous clouds and introduced "wave mechanics" as a mathematical model of the atom. Came up with the equation for quantum wave mechanics--reason electrons move in an atom.
  • James Chadwick

    James Chadwick

    proved existence of neutrons. Using alpha particles discovered a neutral atomic particle with a mass close to a proton. Thus was discovered the neutron.
  • Albert Einstein

    Albert Einstein

    mathematical method to calculate the size of atoms and molecules