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-Believed of the four elements: air, water, earth, fire
-Rejecte Democritus' ideas
-Thought that you will always have a smaller piece of atom matter source
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-used the word "atomos" for atom
-father of the atom
-believed all things consisted of tiny indivisual units source
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-Reintroduced the idea of the atom
-Displaced the ideas by Aristotle
-Called groups of atoms bodies
-Supposed elements were ultimately composed of particles of various sorts and sizes, into which, they were not to be relsolved in any known way source
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-Proposed a mechanical universe with small solid masses in motion
-Began to understand that atoms and or particles move and are not stationary source
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-Proposed combustion theory (based on sound mass measurements)
-Named Oxygen source
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-Developd first atomic theory
-Billiard Ball Model: each atom had a certain mass, size, and chemical behavior determined by element kind
-Element consisted of atoms, all atoms of an element are identicle, each element is different (mass), chemical reaction involved the rearrangement of atoms source
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-Anouncd law of combining volumes
-Showed that at thew same temperature and pressure two volumes of hydrogengas reacted with one volume of oxygen gas to produce two volumes of water sources
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-Proposed molecular theory; two assumptions:
1..Avogadro hypothesis- equal volume of gasses contains equal nuber of moecules at the same temperature and preassure
2..gas molecules can divide during chemical reactions
-Based on speculative assumptions
-Lacked independent experimental evidence or theoretical evidence source
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-Discovered the relationship between electricity and magnetism (one could not exist without the other)
-felt light was the motion or vibration of these lines of force source
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-built first functioning Cathode Ray
-theorized that atomic particles contain a charge source
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-Developed first periodic table
-Arranged by chamical properties
-Listed elements in columns of increasing atomic mass, had many blank spaces for new elements Source
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-Discovered electron using Cathode Ray Tube
-tested several experiments each result was the same
-Plum pudding model: most popular and widely accpted in that timw, atom had an internal structure source
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-discovered radioactive elements Polonium and Radium
-studied uranium and thorium
-called her spontaneous decay process "radioactivity" Sources
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-correctly concluded that the majority of an atomsvolume is empty space
-His model was composed of Dynamids: could account for atomic masses, internal structure, and the emptiness in the atom
-Used the Aluminum Experiment-beam of electrons could pass
through a sheet of Al foil source
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-first to present the atomic model close to the present day model
-His model: was unstable and according to laws of planetary motion the atom will collapse over time, explained electrons moving around nucleus
-atoms were able to give off electrons to form ions source
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-Concluded that noble gasses are stable because of the 8 electrons in the outermost shel
-proposed the valence bond theory
-found that inert gasses have a stable "electron configuration" Sourse
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-The quanta behaved like discrete particles which are called photon
-atoms emit and absorb them
-Albert wrote a paper that explained that light absorbtion can release electrons from atoms called "photoelectric effect" source
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-Determined unit charge of electron with oil drop experiment
-electron= 1.60 x 10^-19
-Allowing for calculation of mass source
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-Gold foil Experiement: proved atoms had a tiny, positivly charge center and atoms were mostly empty space
-Discovered the nucleus
-Nucleaus takes up majority of the atoms mass
-Electrons move around the empty space surrounding nucleus source
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-proposed that the same element exists in different forms
-Theory of isotopes: different elements can be chemically indistinguishable but have different atomic weights
-demonstrated how radioactive elements can disenigrate Source
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-Student of Rutherford
-electrons are placed in energy levels surrounding the nucleus
-most extensive
-explained how electrons could give off light source
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-discovered systematic relation between wavelength and atomic number
-sorted chemical elements by their atomic number
-developed early x-ray spectrometry equipement source
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-Invented mass spectograph
-first to observe isotopes (three different hydrogen atoms) Source
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-suggested electrons could act as both particles and waves
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-Heisenberg uncertainty principle: it is impossoble to know exactly both the velocity and position of a particle at the same time
-we shouldn't view electrons as moving in well-defined orbits around the nucleus source
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-derived a set of wave functions for electrons
-orbitals could be described as density clouds
-densest area= greatest chance of finding an electron
-least dense= lowest chance of finding an electron Source
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-predicted the existence of antiparticles and known for quantum mechanics
-formulated quantum field theory Source
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-discovered neutron
-nuclear fission of Beryllium and beta radiation released a neutron Source
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-discovered transuranium elements (6)
-him and colleagues are responsible for the identification of more than 100 isotopes throughtout the periodic table
-suggested a change om the layour of the periodic table Source
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-demonstrated that nuclear transformation occurs in almost every element subjected to neutron bombardment
-conducted first controlled chain reaction releasing energy from the atom's nucleus source
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