Atomic Theory

  • Antoine Lavoiser

    Antoine Lavoiser
    He discovered Oxygen's role in combustion and respiration
  • Michael Faraday

    Michael  Faraday
    He was the first person to invent the electric motor and dynamo.
  • Joseph Louis Proust

    Joseph Louis Proust
    He discovered the Law of Constant Composition
  • John Dalton

    John Dalton
    He was one of the first scientist's to explain the behavior of atoms using the measurement of weight.
  • Henri Becquerel

    Henri Becquerel
    He was the first to discover Radioactivity
  • JJ Thompson

    JJ Thompson
    He discovered the electron.
  • Max Planck

    Max Planck
    He was the originator of the Quantam theory.
  • Robert Milikan

    Robert Milikan
    He figured out how to measure the charge of an electron.
  • Ernest Rutherford

    Ernest Rutherford
    He was the first person to split an atom.
  • Marie Curie

    Marie Curie
    She is recognized as the firsy woman to acheive the Nobel Prize due to the discovery of polonium
  • Albert Einstein

    Albert Einstein
    He explained the development of atomic energy.
  • Niels Bohr

    Niels Bohr
    He came up with a theory on radition emmision.
  • Lise Meitner

    Lise Meitner
    She discovered the Auger Effect.
  • Louis De Broglie

    Louis De Broglie
    Predicted the wave nature of electrons.
  • Ernest Schrodinger

    Ernest Schrodinger
    He was the one who came up with the wave equation for electron movements.
  • James Chadwick

    James Chadwick
    He proved there was neutrons.
  • Otto Hahn

    Otto Hahn
    He discovered nuclear fission
  • Glen Seaborg

    Glen Seaborg
    He is known for the discovery of plutonium.