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Atomic Theory

  • BC, Aristotle
    Jan 1, 1384

    BC, Aristotle

    Greek philosopher that created the Scientific Method.
  • Period: Aug 23, 1389 to

    Atomic Theory

    By Raven Heyer, Hannah Quigley, Timmy Hawkings, and Levi Jones! :D
  • BC, Democritus
    Jan 1, 1460

    BC, Democritus

    Greek philosopher, formulated the Atomic theory.
  • Benjamin Franklin

    Benjamin Franklin

    Coined the phrase "electrical fluid," and discivered electrocity.
  • John Dalton

    John Dalton

    Created Gas Laws and expanded upon Charles' Law.
  • Ernest Rutherford

    Ernest Rutherford

    Credited for first splitting the atom.
  • Michael Faraday

    Michael Faraday

    Invented early Bunson Burner and recored the 1st synthesized compounds of Carbon and Chlorine.
  • GJ Stoney

    GJ Stoney

    Discovered the concept of the Electron.
  • Dimtri Medeleev

    Dimtri Medeleev

    Discovered the 63 elements of the Periodic Table.
  • Sir William Crookes

    Sir William Crookes

    British chemist that was the pioneer fof vacuum tubes.
    And identifued plasmas.
  • Henri Becquerel

    Henri Becquerel

    Discovered radioactivity, taught Marie Curie.
  • Max Planck

    Max Planck

    Created "Principle of Elementary Disorder".
  • JJ Thompson

    JJ Thompson

    Worked with Stoney and named the negatively charged subatomic particles "corpuscles," but the name was not used.
  • Hantaro Nagaoke

    Hantaro Nagaoke

    Made the Plum Pudding Model.
  • Marie Curie

    Marie Curie

    Discovered Radium and Polonium. Pioneer of Radioativity. Died because of Over-exposure to Radiation.
  • Niiels Borh

    Niiels Borh

    Created a model of a Hydrogen atom and created the formula: E=hv
  • Henri Moseley

    Henri Moseley

    Measured wavelengths and introduced atomic numbers.
  • Robert Millikan

    Robert Millikan

    Measured the charge of an electron.
  • Wolfgang Pauli

    Wolfgang Pauli

    Pioneer to quantum physics, but still not as cool as Shrodinger!!
  • Erwin Schrodinger

    Erwin Schrodinger

    Created Wave Mechanics and Quantum Physics.
    And he is freaking awesome!!! :D
  • Louis de Broglie

    Louis de Broglie

    Discovered wavelength particles.
  • James Chadwick

    James Chadwick

    Discovered Neutrons.
  • Albert Einstein

    Albert Einstein

    What didn't he do?!
    "Father" of the Manhattan Project: the Atomic Bomb. Helped end WWII in 1945.
  • Otto Hahn, Lise Heitner, and Fritz Strassmann

    Otto Hahn, Lise Heitner, and Fritz Strassmann

    Won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry. The first to recongnize that the uranium atom, when hit with neutrons, would split, releasing massive amounts of energy.
  • Friedrich Hund

    Friedrich Hund

    Worked with Schrodinger. Came up with the Hund's Cases and the Hund's Rules: govern electron configurations.
  • Werner Heisenburg

    Werner Heisenburg

    Made formulas for the Matrix Formulation for Quantum Mechanics.