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Democitus discovered that all matter is made of atoms. he described them as large and round.
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Dalton discovered that atoms are more complex than we thought. His theory said that everything it compromised of atoms and atoms were compromised of a nucleus and atoms orbiting it. He also thought that each subatomic particle was in a whole number ratio.
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Thomson conducted many experiments and scattered light to discover his version of the atom - the Plum Pudding model. This model depicted a large sphere with smaller ones inside.
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Rutherford added the nucleus concept to the atom. It was comprised of neutrons and protons and was orbited by electrons.
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Bohr made the Bohr model of the atom
He use the thought that when electrons bounced out of the elector cloud it creats radiation and light. -
Discovered the electron cloud.
He used the Matrix Mechanic to find this discovery.