Atomic Timeline

  • 400

    Democritus

    Democritus believed that atoms were uniform
  • 440

    Palto

    postulated a fifth atomic type
  • 500

    The Alchemists

    Found the four basic elements fire wind water earth
  • 914

    Henry G Mosely

    He discovered the atomic number is the number of positively charged protons in an atom
  • Robert Boyle

    He proposed that elements are composed of 'corpuscles' of various types and sizes
  • Antone Lavosisier

    mass of products and reactants in a chemical reactions is always the same.
  • Billiard ball model

    Adams are small solid particles of matter
  • John Dalton

    Proposed that all matter has atoms
  • Amadeo Avagadro

    qual volumes of gases at the same temperature and pressure contain equal numbers of molecules
  • Dmitri Mendeleev

    He invented the periodic table
  • JJ Thompson

    All atoms have negatively charged particles
  • The Curies

    They isolated radioactive radium salts from the mineral pitchblende
  • Plum putting model

    electrons surrounded positively charged particles
  • Albert Einstein

    Mathematically prove the existence of the atom
  • Robert Millikan

    There is a fundamental electric charge
  • Ernest Rutherford

    the atom is mostly empty space
  • Neils Bohr

    theory for the hydrogen atom
  • Solar system model

    Electrons orbit the nucleus like plan
  • Erwin Schrodinger

    He developed the quantum mechanical model of the atom
  • Electron cloud model

    The nucleus is surrounded by a cloud of electrons
  • Heisenberg

    Mathematically predicted where a electron will be in an atom
  • James Chadwich

    Discovered the neutron