Atomic Theory Time Line

  • Law of Conservation of Mass
    Jan 1, 1178

    Law of Conservation of Mass

    States that mass is neither created nor destroyed in any ordinary chemical reaction, or more simply, the mass of substances produced (products) by a chemical reaction is always equal to the mass of the reacting substances (reactants).
  • Democritus

    Says "These atoms are eternal and invisable." They are absolutely so small that they can't get any smaller.
  • Antoine Lavoisier

    Antoine Lavoisier

    Perceiving that in combustion and the calcination of metals only a portion of a given volume of common air was used up. Also known as "non-vital air".
  • John Dalton

    John Dalton

    Since he was color blind it as hard for him to see the colors that were coming out of his experiment. He suggested that a chemical combimation consists of a number of atoms definite and characteristc weights.
  • Dmitri Mendeleev

    Dmitri Mendeleev

    He created the original work covered a wide range, from questions in applied chemistry to the most general problems of chemical and physical theory.
  • Electron Cloud Model

    Electron Cloud Model

    Function basically describes a cloud-like region where the electron is likely to be found.
  • J.J Thomson

    J.J Thomson

    Invented the Plum Pudding method. In the cathode ray tube the particles that are being produced are negatively charged.
  • Cathode Ray Tube

    Cathode Ray Tube

    Designed by Ernesto Rutherford. He says that, "What was then the world's most sensitive electromagnetic wave detector."
  • Ernest Rutherford

    He showed that radioactivity is a manifestation of sub-atomic change.
  • Robert Millikan

    Robert Millikan

    He measured the electric charges on tiny falling water (and later oil) droplets.
  • Plum Pudding Atomic Model

    Plum Pudding Atomic Model

    The components of the atoms have been discovered. Consists of a subatomic particles called protons and electrons.
  • Rutherford Model

    Rutherford Model

    Describing the atom as having a central positive nucleus surrounded by negative orbiting electrons.
  • Bohr Planetary Model

    Bohr Planetary Model

    His theory elaborated and expanded by other physicists, formed the basis for the developing science of quantum mechanics.
  • Henry Moseley

    Henry Moseley

    Which correlated wavelength and atomic number, thus demonstrating the importance of atomic number over atomic weight, as was the common belief.
  • Niels Bohr

    Niels Bohr

    Bohr's atomic diagram held that the outer orbits hold more electrons than the inner orbits.
  • Erwin Schrodinger

    Erwin Schrodinger

    He introduced the "Schrondinger's wave" a mathmatical equation of wave mathmatics.
  • James Chadwick

    James Chadwick

    He proved the existence of nuetrons and also a fundamental building block of the atoms nucleus.
  • Dalton's Atomic Theory

    Dalton's Atomic Theory

    Rationalised the various laws of chemical combination which were in existence at that time. However, he made a mistake in assuming that the simplest compound of two elements must be binary, formed from atoms of each element in a 1:1 ratio
  • Quantum Mechanical Model

    Quantum Mechanical Model

    Defines the electrons as moving along set orbits around the nucleus.