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Robert Boyle
Robert Boyle publishes The Sceptical Chymist, a treatise on the distinction between chemistry and alchemy. It contains some of the earliest modern ideas of atoms, molecules, and chemical reaction, and marks the beginning of the history of modern chemistry. -
George Brandt
Found Cobalt day and month not mention -
Antoine Lavoisier
Antoine Lavoisier, considered "The father of modern chemistry". recognizes and names oxygen, and recognizes its importance and role in combustion. -
When John Dalton's theory was published
This is the date that John Dalton's theory was published in the memoirs. The year is only mention not the day and a month. -
John Dalton
John Dalton publishes New System of Chemical Philosophy, which contains first modern scientific description of the atomic theory, and clear description of the law of multiple proportions. -
William thompson 1st baron of kevin
Lord Kelvin establishes concept of absolute zero, the temperature at which all molecular motion ceases. -
John Newlands
John Newlands proposes the law of octaves, a precursor to the periodic law. -
Dmitri Mendeleev
At this time he was credited for the publication of the periodic table The day and month is not mention -
Ernest Rutherford
Ernest Rutherford discovers the source of radioactivity as decaying atoms; coins terms for various types of radiation. -
Gold foil experiment
Ernest Rutherford, Hans Geiger, and Ernest Marsden perform the gold foil experiment, which proves the nuclear model of the atom, with a small, dense, positive nucleus surrounded by a diffuse electron cloud.
