Atomic Timeline

  • Plato
    455 BCE

    Plato

    Plato Introduced the atomic theory in which ideals geometric forms serve as atoms
  • Democritus
    450 BCE

    Democritus

    Natural Laws, nothing is actually something, light of stars
  • The Alchemists
    700

    The Alchemists

    Breaking down the chemical compositon of the 4 basic elements of their time, Fire, earth, wind, and water.
  • Robert Boyle

    Robert Boyle

    Developed the atomic theory that matter is made up up of tiny particles that he called corpuscles
  • Antone Lavoisier

    Antone Lavoisier

    Mass is not destroyed in chemical reactions and named oxygen
  • John Dalton

    John Dalton

    First evidential experiment evidence of the existence of matter
  • Amedeo Avogadro

    Amedeo Avogadro

    Research on gas, volume, pressure and tempature
  • Dmitri Mendeleev

    Dmitri Mendeleev

    He created the periodic Table
  • Robert Millikan

    Robert Millikan

    Measured the change of the electrons using his famous oil drop.
  • JJ Thompson

    JJ Thompson

    Discovery of the Electron using the cathode
  • Pierre and Marie Curie

    Pierre and Marie Curie

    Discovered polonium and radium
  • Albert Einstein

    Albert Einstein

    Mathematically proved the existence of atoms
  • Ernest Rutherford

    Ernest Rutherford

    He discovered the nucleus, set forth the laws of radioactive decay, and identified alpha particles as helium nuclei.
  • Plum Pudding Model

    Plum Pudding Model

    Made by JJ thomson and it was a scientific model of the atom
  • Henry G.J. Mosely

    Henry G.J. Mosely

    Henry Mosley discovered a systematic relation between wavelength and atomic number.
  • Solar system Model

    Solar system Model

    A mathematical model of the Sun that describes its structure, composition, energy production, and evolution. And was made by Bohr
  • Electron Cloud model

    Electron Cloud model

    The electron cloud model is a model of an atom that shows the most probable position of electrons
  • Erwin Schrodinger

    Erwin Schrodinger

    He discovered Wave mechanics of electrons in an atom
  • James Chadwich

    James Chadwich

    He is responsible of the discovery of the neutron
  • Neils Bohr

    Neils Bohr

    Quantum concept energy is a system to distain discrete value