Atom Timeline

  • 400

    Democritus discovers the atom and creates an atomic model.

    Democritus discovers the atom and creates an atomic model.
    In 400 BC Democritus created a model of a round spherical atom with no protons, neutrons, or electrons.
  • JJ Thomson discovers the elctron

  • John Dalton creates a new theory.

    His atomic theory was: All matter is made of invisible and indestructible atoms. Atoms of any given element are identical in mass and properties. Compounds are formed by 2 or more different types of atoms. A chemical reaction is the rearrangement of atoms.
  • JJ Thomson makes a new atomic model

    JJ Thomson makes a new atomic model
    In 1904 Thomson suggested a new model of a sphere with a positive charge and negative electrons positioned outside of it.
  • Ernest Rutherford atomic model and structure

    Ernest Rutherford atomic model and structure
    In 1907 he also discovered elements atomic number. He discovered the atomic nucleus.
  • Niels Bohr atomic theory and model

    Niels Bohr atomic theory and model
    His theory was that an atom contains positive nucleus and negatively charged electrons orbiting the nucleus.
  • Robert Millikan atomic theory

    In 1913, Millikan dicovered that atoms have a negative charge in them.
  • James Chadwick discovers the neutron

    James Chadwick discovers the neutron
    In 1932 Chadwick discovered the neutron, a neutron has a neutral charge, and that it is found in the nucleus of an atom.