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Democritus
300 B.C. Democritus created the theory of atoms which stated that everything is made up of atoms. -
Robert Boyle
Created Boyles law in 1662. -
Antoine Lavoisier
Lavoisier discovered oxygen combustion. -
John Dalton
He created the atomic theory. -
Dmitri Mendeleev
In 1869, created a periodic table of elements. This was the first periodic table. -
Eugen Goldstien
1886, he discovered that tubes with a perforated cathode also emit a glow at the cathode end. -
J.J. Thompson
J.J. descovered the electron. -
Max Planck
One of the orignaters of the quantum theroy. Planck expected that wave mechanics would soon render quantum theory -
Henry Moseley
He created moseley’s law, about atoms and the positively charged nucleus. Also helf prove that atomic numbers are physically based. -
Niels Bohr
Bohr discovered quantum physics. -
Ernest Rutherford
Ernest discovered the proton. -
Robert Millikan
Robert was honored with the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1923 for his measurement of the elementary electronic charge and for his work on the photoelectric effect. -
Erwin Schrodinger
He created the wave Schrodinger equation for time-independent systems in 1926. -
James Chadwick
James discovered the Nuetron.
