Atomic Theory

  • Democritus
    460 BCE

    Democritus

    He believed that everything was made up of atoms
  • Aristotle
    300 BCE

    Aristotle

    He believed that all of the elements combined such as (earth, water,fire,air)
  • Georg Bauer
    1495

    Georg Bauer

    He made the first scientific classification of minerals
  • Robert Boyle

    Robert Boyle

    He discovered that elements can be broken down into 2 substances.
  • Antoine Lavoisier

    Antoine Lavoisier

    Developed the law of conservation of mass and he also named hydrogen and oxygen.
  • Joseph Proust

    Joseph Proust

    Developed the law of definite proportions
  • John Dalton

    John Dalton

    elements are consist of atoms that have the same mass. The compounds were different elements combined together
  • Joseph Gay-Lussac

    Joseph Gay-Lussac

    He made the law of combining volumes
  • Amedeo Avogadro

    Amedeo Avogadro

    Developed Avogadro's law
  • J.J. Thomson

    J.J. Thomson

    Discovered the first subatomic particle which is the electron
  • Henri Becquerel

    Henri Becquerel

    He discovered that there is invisible radiation that is emitted by uranium
  • Robert Millikan

    Robert Millikan

    He found that a electron has a negative charge
  • Neils Bohr

    Neils Bohr

    Made the Bohr model of a atom
  • Ernest Rutherford

    Ernest Rutherford

    Found that the nucleus was surrounded by electrons
  • Max Planck

    Max Planck

    Founder of the quantum theory of energy
  • Louis de Broglie

    Louis de Broglie

    Discovered a wave of nature electrons and says that all matter should have wave properties
  • Werner Heisenberg

    Werner Heisenberg

    founder of the theory of quantum mechanics
  • Erwin Schrodinger

    Erwin Schrodinger

    Made the quantum mechanical model of a atom