Chemistry timeline

  • Boyle Marotte's law is published

  • Gay Lussac's Law is published

  • Charles' law is published

  • Dalton's Atomic Theory

  • Avogadro's law is published

  • J.J. Thompson discovers the electron

    He used a cathode ray tube and 2 electromagnets to determine the charge of the unknown subatomic particle.
  • J.J. Thompson states his Plum Puddinng atomic model

  • Ernest Rutherford performs the Rutherford experiment

    He discovers that the positive matter is in a very small dense nucleus and that most of the atom is empty space
  • Niels Bohr states his postulate of the electron shells which explain the change in the spectra of the atoms

  • Wave-particle duality by Louis de Broglie

  • The Uncertainty Principle of Heisenberg