Atom Timeline

  • Democirtus
    465

    Democirtus

    Atom's cannot be destroyed, differ in size, shape and temperature, are always moving and are invisible.
  • Democritus
    465

    Democritus

  • John Dalton

    John Dalton

    All matter is made of atoms. Atoms are invisible and indestructible. Identical in mass and properties. Compounds are two or more different atoms. A chemical reaction is a rearrangement of atoms.
  • John Dalton

    John Dalton

  • J.J. Thomson

    J.J. Thomson

  • J.J. Thomson

    J.J. Thomson

    Identified the negatively charged electron
  • Robert Milliken

    Robert Milliken

  • Robert Milliken

    Robert Milliken

    Determined the charge of the eletron using the oil drop experiment
  • Ernest Rutherford

    Ernest Rutherford

    Proposed the nuclear atom as a result of the gold foil experiment
  • Ernest Rutherford

    Ernest Rutherford

  • Neils Bohr

    Neils Bohr

    Proposed the atomic nucleus
  • Neils Bohr

    Neils Bohr

  • James Chawick

    James Chawick

    Discovered the neutron
  • James Chadwick

    James Chadwick