Atom model

Atomic Theory Scientists

  • Democritus
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    Democritus

    In 460 B.C, Democritus came up with the idea of atoms.
  • John Dalton

    John Dalton

    In the 1800s, John Dalton spread his ideas to help the further exseptance of the ideas of atoms.
  • Sir William Crookes

    Sir William Crookes

    Sir William Crookes helped to discover electrons and conducted an experiment by sending electricty into a concealed tube with electrodes at both ends.
  • JJ Thompson

    JJ Thompson

    in 1897, JJ Tompson discovered that atoms were not simple, soild , spheres and helped discover electrons.
  • Ernest Rutherford

    Ernest Rutherford

    In 1911, Ernest Rutherford discovered the nucleus and said that all positive partivles were inside the atom, and all the negative particles were outside the atom.
  • Neils Bohr

    Neils Bohr

    In 1913, Neils Bohr propsed that electrons orbit around the neculeas.
  • Louis de Broglie

    Louis de Broglie

    Lous de Broglie helped to devolp more accurate information about electrons and electron waves
  • James Chadwick

    James Chadwick

    James Chadwick discoved the neutron in 1932 by conducting an experiment. He found out that protons react as if there is a netural force there, leading him to belive there was a neutral particle.