Element Discoveries

  • Hydrogen

    Cavendish discovered hydrogen
  • Atoms

    John Dalton defined atoms and assigned them to each element
  • Potassium

    David conducted his first experiment with potassium
  • Spectroscope

    Invented by Robert Wilhelm Bunsen
  • Nucleus of the atom

    Ernest Rutherford looked inside the atom for the first time.
  • X-ray spectra

    Henry Moseley discovered a systematic relation between wave length and atomic number