Atoms timeline

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  • Democritus
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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

    Robert Boyle

    Created Boyles law in 1662.
  • Antoine Lavoisier

    Antoine Lavoisier

    Lavoisier discovered oxygen combustion.
  • John Dalton

    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

    Eugen Goldstien

    1886, he discovered that tubes with a perforated cathode also emit a glow at the cathode end.
  • J.J. Thompson

    J.J. Thompson

    J.J. descovered the electron.
  • Max Planck

    Max Planck

    One of the orignaters of the quantum theroy. Planck expected that wave mechanics would soon render quantum theory
  • Henry Moseley

    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

    Niels Bohr

    Bohr discovered quantum physics.
  • Ernest Rutherford

    Ernest Rutherford

    Ernest discovered the proton.
  • Robert Millikan

    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 Chadwick

    James discovered the Nuetron.