Atomic Theory

  • Antoine Lavoisier

    Antoine Lavoisier
    Antoine Lavoisier grew up in a wealthy family and helped discover a more purified and smoother way to use gunpowder, and saltpeter.
  • Joseph Louis Proust

    Joseph Louis Proust
    Joseph Louis Proust was a chemist who proved that relative qualities of a pure element remains invariant.
  • John Dalton

    John Dalton
    John Dalton was science and chemistry when he was younger. He proposed that atoms are indivisible units.
  • Robert Milikan

    Robert Milikan
    Robert Milikan helped prove how a charge was formed. He defined at charge as a strain on the ether of the atom.
  • Michael Faraday

    Michael Faraday
    Michael discovered electromagnetic induction.
  • Henri Bequerel

    Henri Bequerel
    Henri Bequerel was known for discovering radioactivity and going on from there.
  • J.J. Thomson

    J.J. Thomson
    J.J. Thomson was a scientist that studied atoms and discovered the electron. He also helped discover the atoms structures a sphere object.
  • Ernest Schrodinger

    Ernest Schrodinger
    Ernest was a chemist that came up with a groundbreaking wave equation for electron movement.
  • Marie Curie

    Marie Curie
    Maria Curie was a chemist that worked with her husband before his death and discovered radium and polonium.
  • Lisa Meitner

    Lisa Meitner
    Lisa Meitner was helped discover that when a uranium atoms is bombarded with neutrons it will split.
  • Ernest Rutherford

    Ernest Rutherford
    Ernest Rutherford was a scientist who studied radioactivity that discovered alpha and beta rays which set forth the laws of radioactivity decay.
  • Albert Einstein

    Albert Einstein
    Albert Einstein was the founder of the theory of relativity and e=mc^2
  • Max Planck

    Max Planck
    Max was a German physics professor who discovered the quantum theory.
  • Niels Bohr

    Niels Bohr
    Niels Bohr was a scientist who discovered atomic structures and radiation emmissions.
  • Louis Debroglie

    Louis Debroglie
    Louis Debroglie was best known for research on the quantum theory and predicting the wave lengths of electrons.
  • James Chadwick

    James Chadwick
    James Chadwick discovered the neutron in 1932.
  • Otto Hahn

    Otto Hahn
    Otto Hahn was responsible for finding out about nuclear fusion. He found out that when a uranium atom is bombarded by neutrons , it would split.
  • Glen T. Seaborg

    Glen T. Seaborg
    Glen T. Seaborg wasp own for finding nine transuranium elements on the periodic table.