Atomic timeline

  • Democritics
    430 BCE

    Democritics

    Democritus was a central figure in the development of the atomic theory of the universe. He theorized that all material bodies are made up of indivisibly small “atoms.
  • Plato
    400 BCE

    Plato

    It is a notion commonly acknowledged that in his work Plato laid down an early chemical theory of the creation, of the universe
  • Solar system model.
    1473

    Solar system model.

    A solar system is a group of planets and other bodies that revolve around a star.
  • Robert Boyle

    Robert Boyle

    Robert Boyle discovered that the volume of a gas decreases with increasing pressure and vice versa
  • The Alchemists

    The Alchemists

    Alchemists made all sorts of materials for commerce, including medicines, pigments, metallic alloys, perfumes and cosmetics
  • Antone Lavoiser

    Antone Lavoiser

    The first breakthrough in the study of chemical reactions resulted from the work of the French chemist Antoine
  • Billiard Ball Model

    Billiard Ball Model

    He defined an atom to be a ball-like structure, as the concepts of atomic nucleus and electrons were unknown at the time.
  • John Dalton

    John Dalton

    John Dalton was an English chemist, physicist. He introduced the Atomic theory into chemistry.
  • Amedeo Avogadro

    Amedeo Avogadro

    He was the first to make a distinction between molecules of a substance and its atoms
  • Dmitri Mendeleeve

    Dmitri Mendeleeve

    Building the Periodic Table of the Elements. Dmitri Mendeleev, a Russian chemist and teacher, devised the periodic table
  • JJ Thompson

    JJ Thompson

    In 1897 Thomson discovered the electron and then went on to propose a model for the structure of the atom.
  • pierre and marie currie

    pierre and marie currie

    He and Marie discovered radium and polonium in their investigation of radioactivity.
  • Plum Pudding Model

    Plum Pudding Model

    the electrons were embedded in a uniform sphere of positive charge, like blueberries stuck into a muffin.
  • Albert Einstein

    Albert Einstein

    Einstein also in 1905 mathematically proved the existence of atoms,
  • Ernest Rutherford

    Ernest Rutherford

    postulated the nuclear structure of the atom, discovered alpha and beta rays, and proposed the laws of radioactive decay. .
  • Robert Millikan

    Robert Millikan

    In 1909 Millikan began a series of experiments to determine the electric charge carried by a single electron. He began by measuring the course of charged water droplets in an electric field.
  • Henry G. J. Mosley

    Henry G. J. Mosley

    Known as Moseley's law, this fundamental discovery concerning atomic numbers was a milestone in advancing the knowledge of the atom.
  • Nolis Bohr

    Nolis Bohr

    Niels Bohr proposed a model of the atom in which the electron was able to occupy only certain orbits around the nucleus.
  • electron cloud model

    electron cloud model

    An electron is a negatively charged subatomic particle.The other two are protons and neutrons.
  • James Chadwich

    James Chadwich

    He discovered a neutron is a particle with no electric charge that, along with positively charged protons, makes up an atom's nucleus.