Atomic timeline

  • Democritus
    400 BCE

    Democritus

    Democritus lived a long time ago, nd he is the one to discover THE atom.
  • Plato
    400 BCE

    Plato

    It was around the time Democritus made his discory, that Plato cntributed to the tomic theory and discovered Empedocles, the 5th atomic type in the theory
  • Robert Boyle

    Robert Boyle

    Robert Boyle was an Anglo-Irish man who contributed to the atomic theory by making his own law (Boyle's law) about pressure, volume & gas!
  • Antoine Lavoisier

    Antoine Lavoisier

    Antoine-Laurent de Lavoisier helped the atomic theory by discovering lots of stuff about oxygen and even naming the element.
  • Billiard Ball Model

    Billiard Ball Model

    The billiard ball model was created by John Dalton, explaining the atom
  • John Dalton

    John Dalton

    John Dalton was an English chemist who created the atomic theory saying "All matter was composed of atoms indivisible and indestructible building blocks"
  • Amedeo Avogadro

    Amedeo Avogadro

    Amedeo was an Italian scientist who discovered that equal volumes of gases when they're the same temperature that contain the same number of molecules
  • Dmitri Mendeleev

    Dmitri Mendeleev

    Dmitri was a Russian chemist who discovered that all the chemical elements are arranged in the atomic weight
  • JJ Thompson

    JJ Thompson

    JJ Thompson (like Chadwich) was a british physicist who diescovered that atoms had negatively charged electrons, or particles
  • Plum Pudding Model

    Plum Pudding Model

    The Plum pudding model was created by JJ Thompson explaining electrons
  • Albert Einstein

    Albert Einstein

    Albert Einstein was a very well known, very smart man who proved mathematically that atoms exist
  • Robert Millikan

    Robert Millikan

    Noble prize winner for Physicist, Robert Millikan discovered the magnitude of electron's charge in the atom.
  • Ernest Rutherford

    Ernest Rutherford

    Ernest was a New Zealand physicist who discovered that the atom is mostly empty space
  • Neils Bohr

    Neils Bohr

    Neils Bohr was a Danish physicist who discovered that electrons move around the nucleus
  • Henry G. J. Moseley

    Henry G. J. Moseley

    Herny was an English physicist who contributed to the atomic theory by making the atomic number is equal to the number of positive electrons, or particles, on the periodic table.
  • Solar System model

    Solar System model

    Not to get confused with the actual solar system, this model shows off all of the different parts of the atom.
  • Erwin Schordinger

    Erwin Schordinger

    Erwin was an Australia-Irish physicist who discovery about the hydrogen atom's energy levels.
  • Electron Clud Model

    Electron Clud Model

    The Electron cloud model is a model of an atom, showing off its elements...
  • Werner Heisenberg

    Werner Heisenberg

    Werner was a German physicist whop formulated the quantum mechanics
  • James Chadwich

    James Chadwich

    James was a british physicist who made a very important discovery regarding the theory. He discovered the atom