Atomic Theory Time Line

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  • Democritus
    400

    Democritus

    In 400 BC Democritus founded the ancient atomist theory. He did no experiments. His model of the atom depended on analogies
  • Period: 400 to

    Atomic Theory Timeline

  • Antoine Lavoisier

    Antoine Lavoisier

    Father of modern chemistry. Named oxygen, hydrogen, and silicon, first to state law of conservation of mass.
  • John Dalton

    John Dalton

    A chemist, meterologist and physicist pioneered the modern atomic theory and research in Colour blindness
  • Law of Conservation of Mass

    Law of Conservation of Mass

    States mass is neither created nor destroyed. And matter remains constant over time.
  • Dalton's Atomic Theory

    Dalton's Atomic Theory

    Created a scientific theory based off of Democritus atom idea that all elements are created from indestructable particles called atoms. His theory introduced compounds also, when different elements are joined chemical reactions occur.
  • Dmitry Mendeleev

    Dmitry Mendeleev

    Created Periodic Table of Elements and extended it throughout time.
  • J.J Thomson

    J.J Thomson

    Discovered electrons by showing that cathode-rays could be deflected electrically. Also discovered Isotopes
  • Robert Millikan

    Robert Millikan

    Made the plum pudding model and stated that the charge of an electron is negative.
  • Ernest Rutherford

    Ernest Rutherford

    Discovered Protons. Concluded that the nucleus is made of protons.
  • Niels Bohr

    Niels Bohr

    Developed model of Atom with nucleus in center and electrons orbiting it. Won Nobel Prize in Physics.
  • Erwin Schrodinger

    Erwin Schrodinger

    Developed results in the Quantum Theory which formed basis of wave mechanics.
  • Henry Moseley

    Henry Moseley

    Sorted elements in periodic table which is still accepted today. Also adavanced the concept of the atomic number.
  • James Chadwick

    James Chadwick

    Discovered the neutron and that it has no charge and is in the nucleus.
  • Plum Pudding Model

    Plum Pudding Model

    His discoveries used the falling drop method which balanced downward gravational pull with buoyant and electrical qpward forces between electrons.
  • Gold Foil Experiment

    Showed atom was made up of empty space with electrons flowing and a positive charged nucleus in the middle.
  • Rutherford Model

    Rutherford Model

    Model that proved the plum pudding model wrong and the model contained a nucleus.
  • Bohr Plantary Model

    Bohr Plantary Model

    Depicts the atom as a small positively charged nucleus surrounded by electrons that travel in circular orbits around the nucleus.
  • Rutherford Model

    Rutherford Model

    Showed that the atom was made of empty space were electrons moved with a nucleus in the center with postive particles. And that the electrons orbit the nucleus.
  • Electon Cloud Model

    Electon Cloud Model

    An atom model where electrons are no longer depicted as particles moving around the nucleus in a fixed orbit and showed exactly were the paricles are.
  • Quantum Mechanical Model

    Quantum Mechanical Model

    Showed behavior of particles in the atomic realms and diagramed the electron clouds.