Atomic Timeline

  • democritus
    400 BCE

    democritus

    everything is composed of atoms
    by imaging the sign of the first atom
  • plato
    400 BCE

    plato

    ideal geometric forms serve as atoms
  • JJ thompson
    1197

    JJ thompson

    discovered the electron
    all matter is type of particle smaller than atom
  • Antone Lavoisier
    1200

    Antone Lavoisier

    law of conservation
    father of chemistry
  • The alchemists
    1400

    The alchemists

    -Treated other ores and metals to make gold
    -created a scientific theory that eventually discovered the atom
  • Robert boyle

    Robert boyle

    contributed to development of corpusculums.
  • John Dalton

    John Dalton

    -English chemist and physicist who proposed first modern atomic theory
  • Amadeo Avogradro

    Amadeo Avogradro

    equal volumes of gases under the same conditions of tempeture and pressure
  • Dmitri Mendeleev

    Dmitri Mendeleev

    made first periodic table
    discovered elements not yet found
  • Pierrre and Marie Curie

    Pierrre and Marie Curie

    conducted research or radiology
    discovered polonium and radium
  • Albert Einstein

    Albert Einstein

    mathematically proved the existence of atoms and their random, ceasless motion
  • robert millikan

    robert millikan

    figured out charge of the electron
  • ernest rutherford

    ernest rutherford

    a pioneering researcher in both atomic and nuclear physics
  • Neils Bohr

    Neils Bohr

    -Atomic theory states that an atom is like a planetary model where electrons were situated in discreetly energized orbits
  • henry g. j mosely

    henry g. j mosely

    discovered atomic numbers of each element
  • James Chadwich

    James Chadwich

    discovered the neutron