Atomic Timeline

  • John Dalton

    John Dalton
    John Dalton is born in England.
  • JOHN DALTON

    JOHN DALTON
    John Dalton suggested an atomic theory with spherical solid atoms based upon measurable properties of mass.
  • John Dalton

    John Dalton
    John died of a stroke in Manchester England
  • JJ Thomson

    JJ Thomson
    Thomson was born in Manchester England.
  • Rutherford

    Rutherford
    Rutherford was born in Spring Grove NZ.
  • Niels Bohr

    Niels Bohr
    Bohr was born in Copenhagen.
  • Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen

    Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen
    Wilhelm discovered, by accident, x rays. First X-rays was of Rontgen's wife's ring hand.
  • J J THOMSON

    J J THOMSON
    JJ Thomson studied canal rays and found they were associated with proton H+
  • CRT

    CRT
    JJ Thomson used a Cathode Ray Tube to experimentally determine the charge to mass ratio e/m of an electron =1.759x10
    8 columbs/grams
  • RUTHERFORD

    RUTHERFORD
    Rutherford studied radiations emitted from Uranium and Thorium and named them Alpha and Beta
  • Nobel Peace Prize

    Nobel Peace Prize
    JJ Thomson wins the Nobel Peace Prize in Physics for the discovery of the electron
  • Nobel Peace Prize

    Nobel Peace Prize
    Rutherford wins the Nobel Peace Prize for Chemistry.
  • NIELS BOHR

    NIELS BOHR
    Bohr developed an explanation of atomic structure that underlies regularities of the Periodic Table of Elements.His atomic model has atoms built up of successive orbital shells of electrons.
  • Nobel Peace Prize

    Nobel Peace Prize
    Bohr won the Nobel Prize in Physics.
  • QUANTUM

    QUANTUM
    In the summer of 1925, Bohr and Heisenberg published results that closed the Old Quantum Theory.
  • Rutherford

    Rutherford
    Rutherford dies in Cambridge, Cambridgeshire.
  • JJ Thomson

    JJ Thomson
    Thomson died in Cambridge.
  • Atomic Bomb

    Atomic Bomb
    The first atomic bomb is dropped on Hiroshima. They called it "Little Boy".
  • Niels Bohr

    Niels Bohr
    Bohr lived and died in Copenhagen