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Atomic History Timeline

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  • John Dalton

    John Dalton

    Created the Atomic Theory
  • Joseph Louis Proust

    Joseph Louis Proust

    Created the Law of Definite proportions.
  • Julius Plücker

    Julius Plücker

    Built one of first Cathode Ray tubes
  • Dmitri Mendeleev

    Dmitri Mendeleev

    developed 1st periodic table of elements
  • J.J. Thomson

    J.J. Thomson

    Discovery of electrons and plum pudding model
  • Robert Millikan

    Robert Millikan

    Determined the charge of an electron
  • Ernest Rutherford

    Ernest Rutherford

    Electron cloud model and established that the nucleus is small and dense
  • H.G.J. Moseley

    H.G.J. Moseley

    Uses x-ray tubes to determine charge of nuclei
  • Francis Aston

    Francis Aston

    Discovered isotopes
  • James Chadwick

    James Chadwick

    Proved the existence of neutrons
  • Otto Hahn

    Otto Hahn

    discovered nuclear fission, in which the nucleus of an atom breaks up into two separate nuclei, while experimenting with uranium.