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Aristotle
Aristotle disagreed with Democritus's model of the atom in Aristotle was a Greek philosopher. Many of his ideas were more thought based than scientifically based. -
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Democritus
his mentor, Leucippus, originally came up with the atomic theory, but it was then adopted by Democritus. The atomic theory stated that the universe is composed of two elements- the atoms and the void in which they exist and move.” According to Democritus atoms were miniscule quantities of matter. -
Dalton
john Dalton was an English chemist that created the Atomic Theory of Matter, a composition of previous findings by Democritus and his own finding's -
Rutherford
Ernest Rutherford, 1st Baron Rutherford of Nelson, OM, FRS was a New Zealand physicist who came to be known as the father of nuclear physics. -
Thompson
Thomson was a very important scientist when it came to the atomic model. Up until his time,\ all models of the atom looked like a big solid ball. -
Neils bohr
Niels Bohr was a Danish scientist that was a student of Rutherford. He decided to make a new model based off of Rutherford's model, but changed the orbit of the electron -
Heisenberg
Heisenberg
