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  Name - John Dalton
Year/s he worked - 1803
Nationality - English
His contributions - Introducing the atomic theory to chemistry - 
  
  
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        Name - Joseph john Thomson
year/s He worked - 1897
Nationality - Scottish
His contribution - experiments with cathode ray tubes showed that all atoms contain tiny negatively charged subatomic particles or electrons - 
  
  
        Name - Ernest Rutherford
Years he worked - 1907
Nationality - New zealand
Contribution - He found that the atom is mostly empty space, with almost all its mass concentrated at the central nucleas - 
  
  
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        Leo discovered that the atom is really small