Atomic Theory

  • John Dalton

    John Dalton

    John Dalton Discovered that compounds are made of certain atoms with a specific mass and specific property
  • JJ Thomson

    JJ Thomson

    JJ Thomson discovered the electron and proposed a new model for the atom
  • Ernest Rutherford

    Ernest Rutherford

    Ernest Rutherford, with shooting alfa particles at gold foil discovered that atoms are mostly empty space, the nucleus is positively charged, and very dense
  • Niels Bohr

    Niels Bohr

    Niels expanded on the electron and proposed that it orbits the nucleus at certain speeds and distances
  • James Chadwick

    James Chadwick

    James discovered the neutron and how it shares space in the nucleus with the proton but unlike the positively charged proton the neutron is neutrally charged

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