Day Famous Dead Guy Project

By Lauren.Day
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    Thales of Miletus 600 B.C.

    Thought everything was made from water or made from something else.
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    Democritus- 460-370 B.C.

    Came up with the term "atom." and believing everything is held together by atoms.
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    Aristotle- 384-322 B.C.

    Believed everything was made up from Earth, water, air, and fire.

  • Sir Issac Newton- 1704

    Atoms are tiny particles that move a ton.

  • Dalton- 1803

    Mixture of gases for experiment, 5 main points- Atomic Theory

  • Antoine Henri Becquerel

    Discovered radioactivity and used the Uranium experiment.

  • J.J. Thompson- 1897

    Discovered the electron.

  • Ernest Rutherford- 1904-1911

    Discovered that atoms contain a nucleus.

  • Gold Foil Experiment 1904-1911

  • Robert Millikan 1908-1917

    Determined charge and mass of electrons. He completed the Oil Drop Experiment

  • Bohr 1915

    Created the Bohr model, electrons on fixed paths.

  • Francis Aston

    Aston studied and discovered the isotope using a mass spectrometer.

  • James Chadwick- 1932

    Discovered the evidence towards the existance of neutrons.

  • Schrodinger

    Used math equations to describe the probability of where an electron will be. He discovered the Quantum Model.