Atomic timeline

  • Democritus
    400 BCE

    Democritus

    atoms were uniform ,solid, hard, incompressible, and there hard.
  • Solar system model
    330 BCE

    Solar system model

    Describes atoms as consisting of a nucleus with a number of electrons in orbits around that nucleus
  • Plato
    350

    Plato

    Solid forms of matter are composed of individual elements shaped like triangles
  • The Alchemists
    501

    The Alchemists

    That all metals were formed from two principles (Mercury and Sulfar)
  • Robert Boyle

    Robert Boyle

    He believed that everything was composed of very tiny proporties
  • Antone Lavoisier

    Antone Lavoisier

    Grounded in the law of conversation of mass exploring matter was converted during chemical changes
  • John Dalton

    John Dalton

    Discovered the atomic theroy all matter was compressed of indivisible and indestructible atoms
  • Billiard ball model

    Billiard ball model

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

    Amedeo Avogadro

    Equals volumes opf gases of the same temperature and pressure contain the same number of molecules
  • Dmitri Mendeleev

    Dmitri Mendeleev

    Elements arranged according to the value of their atomic weights.
  • JJ Thompson

    JJ Thompson

    Composed the plum pudding model of the atom. (soap)
  • Pierre and Marie Curie

    Pierre and Marie Curie

    Discovered the strongly radioactive elements and radium which occur naturally in minerals.
  • Plum pudding model

    Plum pudding model

    Depects the electrons as a negatively charged particles embedded in a sea of positive charge
  • Albert Einstein

    Albert Einstein

    proved the existence of atoms. Any liquid is made up of particles
  • Robert Millikan

    Robert Millikan

    That electron did have a discrete, even charge
  • Ernest Rutherford

    Ernest Rutherford

    Described atom as having tiny, decease charged core called the nucleus
  • Neils Bohr

    Neils Bohr

    Theory for the hydrogen atom. Some physical quantities only take discrete values
  • Henery G.J Mosley

    Henery G.J Mosley

    Frequency of the x-ray by an atom is proportional to its atomic number
  • Electron Cloud model

    Electron Cloud model

    Shows a practicular area in which an electron is likely to be
  • Erwin Schrodinger

    Erwin Schrodinger

    the behavior of electrons within atoms could be explained by treating them mathematically as matter waves.
  • James Chadwich

    James Chadwich

    Discovery of the neutron