Atomic theory

  • democritus
    460 BCE

    democritus

    He brought up the thought
  • aristotle
    384 BCE

    aristotle

    disagreed with democritus
  • Robert Boyle

    Robert Boyle

    wrote a book about the 4 elements
  • Antoine Lavoisier

    Antoine Lavoisier

    found that mass is conserved in chemical reaction
  • Joseph Proust

    Joseph Proust

    first pubished his Law of Definite
  • John Dalton

    John Dalton

    said that all matter was composed of atoms
  • Amadeo Avogadro

    Amadeo Avogadro

    hypothesis that equal volcumes of different gases
  • Joseph Gay-Lussac

    Joseph Gay-Lussac

    discover one of the fundamental law of gases
  • Henri Becquerel

    Henri Becquerel

    first to conculude that atoms could be radiactive
  • J.J. Thomson

    J.J. Thomson

    discoved the electron
  • Max Planck

    Max Planck

    originator for the quantum theory
  • Robert Millikan

    Robert Millikan

    understandings of the structure of the atom and atomic theory
  • Ernest Rutherford

    Ernest Rutherford

    discoved alpha and beta rays
  • Niels Bohr

    Niels Bohr

    proposed a theory for the hydrogen atoms
  • Erwin Schrodinger

    Erwin Schrodinger

    To the wav thery of matter and to other fundamentals of quantum mechanics
  • Louis de Broglie

    Louis de Broglie

    research on quantum theory and for predicting the wave nature of electrons
  • Werner Heisenberg

    Werner Heisenberg

    it was for physics