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Atomic Model Through Time

  • Aristotle
    201

    Aristotle

    What: Made of the 4 elements. (fire, water, earth, air)
    Had 4 qualities (hotness, dryness, coldness, wetness)
    2 forces (conflict, harmony)
    How: Developed it. People believed it for years to come.
  • Democritus
    220

    Democritus

    Proposed the existence of an ultimate particle.
    Used "atomos" to describe the particle.
  • John Dalton

    John Dalton

    What: Atoms are tiny, indestructible particles with no internal structure.
    How: Through discorse.
  • J.J. Thomson

    J.J. Thomson

    What: Electrons embedded in a spehere of positive electic charge.
    How: Discovered it.
  • The Curies

    The Curies

    Pierre Curie and his wife Marie Curie stated that radioactive materials cause atoms to break down spontaneously, releasing radiation in the form of energy and subatomic particles.
  • Hantaro Nagaoka

    Hantaro Nagaoka

    What: Has a central nucleus. Moves in orbits like rings around Saturn.
    How: Developed it.
  • Ernest Marsden

    Worked with Hans Geiger under Ernest Rutherford.
    Worked with Rutherford on gold foil experiment.
  • Ernest Rutherford

    Ernest Rutherford

    What: An tom has a dense; positively charged nucleus. Electrons move randomly around the nucleus.
    How; Published.
  • Nies Bohr

    Nies Bohr

    What: Electrons move in speherical orbits at fixed distances from the nucleus.
    How: Evidence is discovered years later.
  • Louis de Broglie

    Louis de Broglie

    What: Moving particles like electrons have some properties of waves.
    How: Proposes. Evidence is collected years later.
  • Erin Shrodinger

    Erin Shrodinger

    Developed the equation currently used to understand atoms and molecules. (Shrodinger Equation)
  • Werner heisenberg

    Asserted the uncertainty principle of quantum theory.
    Heisenberg was awarded the 1932 Nobel Prize in Physics for the creation of quantum mechanics
  • James Chadwick

    James Chadwick

    What: Existence of neutrons. Nuclei contain neitrons and positively charged protons.
    How: Comfirmed it.