Atomic Model

  • The Alchemists
    500 BCE

    The Alchemists

    The Alchemists discovered zinc and metallic arsenic
  • Democritus
    460 BCE

    Democritus

    He theorized that all material bodies are made up of indivisibly small “atoms.”
  • Aristotle
    385 BCE

    Aristotle

    he invented the field of formal logic
  • Plato
    347 BCE

    Plato

    theoretical thought experiments to predict or postulate new concepts.
  • Robert Boyle

    Robert Boyle

    as the person who discovered that the volume of a gas decreases with increasing pressure
  • J.J Thomson

    J.J Thomson

    atoms contain tiny negatively charged subatomic particles or electrons
  • Ernest Rutherford

    Ernest Rutherford

    a few are violently deflected, which implies a dense, positively charged central region containing most of the atomic mass
  • Henry G. J. Moseley

    Henry G. J. Moseley

    this fundamental discovery concerning atomic numbers was a milestone in advancing the knowledge of the atom
  • Werner Heisenberg

    Werner Heisenberg

    contributed to atomic theory through formulating quantum mechanics in terms of matrices and in discovering the uncertainty principle, which states that a particle's position and momentum cannot both be known exactly
  • The Curies

    The Curies

    Curie conducted her own experiments on uranium rays and discovered that they remained constant, no matter the condition or form of the uranium
  • Neils Bohr

    Neils Bohr

    Niels Bohr proposed a theory for the hydrogen atom based on quantum theory that energy is transferred only in certain well defined quantities