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Democritus stated almost 1000 years before any proof, that atoms make all matter and differ in size, shape, position, mass, and arrangement. The author of over 70 books, he lived and worked in ancient Greece
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The alchemists were a group of people around the world who thought they could make gold and silver from other metals by chemistry. They began the beginnings of modern science. Particularly, chemistry.
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Aristotle lived and worked in Greece. There, he taught others. Eventually , He created the foundation for many modern sciences, specificly Chemistry
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Coulomb made a law that explains the force between two electric charges. Coulomb lived and worked in France and graduated Military school!
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John Dalton of England did not prove anything, but instead spread the idea Democritus stated years before. Unusually, Dalton began science as trying to explain color blindness!
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Crookes, while in London U.K, discovered thallium as well as first samples of helium. Surprisingly, Crookes' father was a tailor.
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Thomson theorized the structure of the atom in the U.K. Interestingly, his father wanted him to be an engineer.
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The husband and wife Curies discovered polonium and radium in France. Unusually, Marie Curie got 2 Nobel prizes, one for both curies and one for Marie herself.
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Millikan discovered the charge of a single electron when we was working in the U.S.A.For fun, he loved to play tennis.
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Discovered by none other than Rutherford in 1911.
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Bohr created a model called (ready for this!?) Bohr's Model (amazing!).He lived and worked in Denmark, where he had 6 sons.
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The iconic image of an atom was proposed by Bohr (obviously) in 1913.
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This was proposed by Schrodinger in 1926.
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James Chadwick was the assistant director of Research in Cavendish, U.K. 9 years later, He discovered the electron, a part of an atom!
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Hahn, along with Meitner, discovered the fission of heavy nuclei. Also, Hahn discovered radiothorium.
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Seaborg of the U.S discover more than 9 elements! he gained a Nobel prize before he was 40.
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Roentgen lived and worked in Germany, when he discovered x-rays. Hilariously, The x-ray he made was of his wife's hand!
