Atomic Theory

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    Atomic Theory

  • John Dalton

    John Dalton created his model of the atom in 1808. He created it after his experiment with gases. He concluded was the total pressure of a mixture of gases amounted to the sum of the partial pressures that each individual gas exerted while occupying the same space.
  • Joseph Thomson

    experiments with cathode ray tubes showed that all atoms contain tiny negatively charged subatomic particles or electrons. Thomson proposed the plum pudding model of the atom, which had negatively-charged electrons embedded within a positively-charged "soup."
  • Ernest Rutherford

    He postulated the nuclear structure of the atom: experiments done in Rutherford's laboratory showed that when alpha particles are filled into gas atoms, a few are violently deflected, which implies a dense, positively charged central region containing most of the atomic mass.
  • Niels Bohr

    In 1913, Niels Bohr proposed the hydrogen atom. After his experiment based on quantities only take discrete values. Then came up with the conclusion that Electrons more around a nucleus, but onlyin prescribed orbits, and if electrons jump to a lower-energy orbit, the difference is sent out as radiation.