Atomic Structure Timeline

By Deshai9
  • Aristotle

    Aristotle

    He believed in the four elements of air, earth, water and fire.
  • Joseph Priestly

    Joseph Priestly

    He discovered oxygen which he called "dephlogisticated air".
  • Antoine Lavoisier

    Antoine Lavoisier

    He created the combustion theory which was based on sound mass measurements.
  • Johann Becher

    Johann Becher

    Developed the Phlogiston theory.
  • Dalton

    Dalton

    He discover that only certain gases canbe combined in certain proprotions.
  • Dalton Atomic

    Dalton Atomic

    Dalton gave oxygen an atomic weight of seven instead of eight.
  • Dalton Model

    Dalton Model

    In this year, he noted that oxygen and carbon combined together makes two compunds.
  • Joseph Gay-Lussac

    Joseph Gay-Lussac

    Joseph was the first to announced the law of combining volumes
  • Amadeo Avogadro

    Amadeo Avogadro

    He created the Avogadro's Hypothesis in which was not yet approved.
  • Stanislao Cannizzaro

    Stanislao Cannizzaro

    He was at a conference and wanted the Avogadro's Hypothesis be accepted.
  • Dimitri Mendeleev

    Dimitri Mendeleev

    He creaed the periodic law and developed the first periodic table.
  • Sir William Crookes

    Sir William Crookes

    Discovered cathode rays travel in straight lines.
  • J. J. Thomson

    J. J. Thomson

    He identified the negative charged electron in the cathode ray tube
  • Curies

    Curies

    They both are chemists-physicists.
  • Curie's

    Curie's

    They both discovered two other elements polonium and radium.
  • Robert Millikan

    Robert Millikan

    He was the one the created the formula e = 1.60 x 10-19 coulombs
  • Ernst Rutherford

    Ernst Rutherford

    He created the nuclear atom.
  • Moseley

    Moseley

    Found that the energy of the elements coming out from x-rays increased linearly.
  • Henry Moseley

    Henry Moseley

    He was the one that said that there was a positive charge on the nucleus.
  • Bohr

    Bohr

    Niels Bohr created the Bohr Model of the Atom
  • Bohr Atom

    The bohr model is a planetary model.
  • Francis Aston

    Francis Aston

    He invented the mass spectrograph.
  • James Chadwick

    James Chadwick

    He discovered the neutron
  • Democriotus Model

    Democriotus Model

    He was the person to use the word atom.
  • Democritus Model

    Democritus Model

    He also was the first one to tell everyone that atomics were mechanically bound.