• The Alchemists
    500 BCE

    The Alchemists

    All metals were formed from 2 principles. Mercury and Sulfur
  • Democritus
    460 BCE

    Democritus

    Atoms were uniform, solid, hard, incompressible, and indestructible and that they moved in infinite numbers through empty space until stopped.
  • Plato
    440 BCE

    Plato

    Solid forms of matter are composed of indivisible elements shaped like triangles
  • Antoine Lavoisier

    Antoine Lavoisier

    Defined that matter was composed of atoms that were not created or destroyed during chemical reactions.
  • Amedeo Avogadro

    Amedeo Avogadro

    Equal volumes of gases at the same temperature and pressure contain the same number of molecules regardless of their chemical nature and physical properties.
  • Dmitri Mendeleev

    Dmitri Mendeleev

    Elements arranged according to the value of their atomic weights present a clear periodicity of properties
  • JJ Thompson

    JJ Thompson

    All atoms contain tiny negatively charged subatomic particles or electrons.
  • Pierre and Marie Curie

    Pierre and Marie Curie

    She suggested that the powerful rays, or energy, the polonium and radium gave off were actually particles from tiny atoms that were disintegrating inside the elements.
  • Albert Einstein

    Albert Einstein

    Any liquid is made up of molecules
  • robert millikan

    robert millikan

    Millikan's work demonstrated that electrons did have a discrete, quantifiable charge
  • ernest rutherford

    ernest rutherford

    Described the atom as having a tiny, dense, and positively charged core called the nucleus
  • neils bohr

    neils bohr

    Some physical quantities only take discrete values
  • henry G. J. Mosely

    henry G. J. Mosely

    Atomic numbers are the fundamental feature that describes an element.
  • james chadwich

    james chadwich

    Discovery of the neutron.