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Aristole doesn't believe in the atom
Aristole Doesn't beieve the atom. So he comes up with his own idea that everything on earth is made up of a mix of : air, Water, Earth, and Fire.
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John dalton's atom model
John dalton made the first useful atom model. He discovered this new atomic model while experimenting with water and air particles. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Dalton -
Marrie curie discovers radioactivity
Marrie curie discovers radioactivity in 1895.
https://www.mysciencework.com/news/2014/what-if-the-curie-and-joliot-curie-families-spoke-to-us-of-nuclear-power -
JJ thompson's discovery of the electron
Joseph John Thompson discovered the electron while experimenting with a cathode ray tube to originally find out what high voltage discharge does. JJ thompson's model was called the plum pudding model because of the way it resembled plum pudding. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._J._Thomson -
Ernest Rutherford
Ernest ruthford discovered what we now call the nucleus back in 1911. He discovered this while experimenting with alpha particles and gas atoms. What he saw was that some of the negative particles were thrown off the path. With this evidence he concluded that the middle of atoms is dense and is positivly charged. http://www.chemheritage.org/discover/online-resources/chemistry-in-history/themes/atomic-and-nuclear-structure/rutherford.aspx -
Neils Bohr discovery
Neils Bohr studied the work of Ernest Ruthfords model and also Max Planck. He concluded that electrons travel around the nucleus in an orderly fashion.
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James Chadwick discovers the neutron
In 1932 James chadwick discovers the neutron. He found it by Doing an experiment with plutonium and candle wax. James also used information from a previous experment done by Frederic and Irene Joliot-Curie. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Chadwick -
Albert Einstein tries to disprove the quantum theory
Einstein tried to disprove the theory he helped make because he said it was incomplete but right.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Einstein
