Famous Atom Creators

  • Democritus
    400 BCE

    Democritus

    Matter is composed of empty space through which atoms move. Atoms are solid, homogeneous, indestructible and indivisible. Different types of atoms are different shapes and sizes. Different properties would be due to size, shape, and movement.
  • Aristotle
    340 BCE

    Aristotle

    The most influential philosophers who wrote extensively on many subjects such as politics, ethics, nature, physics, and astronomy. Not all of them have been found because they have been lost throught time.
  • Automobile was invented

    Automobile was invented

  • Revolutionary War

    Revolutionary War

  • Antonie Lavosier

    Antonie Lavosier

    Lavosier performed some of the first quantitative chemical experiments which led to the statement of the law of conservation of mass. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=41lACsJcbWQ
  • Joseph Proust

    Joseph Proust

    Proust came up with the constant composition, stating that chemical compounds always combine in constant proportions
  • William Crookes

    William Crookes

    Noticed a flash produced by some form of radiation striking a light-producing coating that had been applied to the end of the tube which then discovered the cathode ray.
  • John Dalton

    John Dalton

    All matter is composed of tiny atoms. Atoms of a given element are indentical, same size, mass, and chemical properties. Atoms can't be created or destroyed. Different atoms combine in simple whole number ratios to make compounds. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OUoV--CuLDA
  • Amadeo Avagadro

    Amadeo Avagadro

    He made contributions to molecular theory, including what is known as Avogadro's law. which states that equal volumes of all gases, at the same temperature and pressure, have the same number of molecules.
  • War of 1812

    War of 1812

  • CIvil War

    CIvil War

  • Assassination fo Abe Lincoln

    Assassination fo Abe Lincoln

  • Thomas Edison invented the light bulb

    Thomas Edison invented the light bulb

  • J.J. Thomson

    J.J. Thomson

    He was carefully measuring the effect of both magnetic and electric fields on a cathode ray, then he was able to determine the charge-to-mass ratio of the charged particle. He found that the mass of the charged particle was much less than that of a hydrogen atom.
  • Henri Becquerel

    On accident, he discovered that the uranium salts spontaneously emitted a penetrating radiation that could be registered on a photographic plate. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aU_Lch2Dauo
  • Madame Curie

    Madame Curie

    She discovered radioactivity, and conducted pioneering research on radioactivity.
  • Max Planck

    Max Planck

    He searched for an explanation by studying the light emitted from heated objects which made him find that matter can gain or lose energy in small specific amounts. This made him find the quantum theory. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R9sMxEnbha0
  • Albert Einstein

    Albert Einstein

    Albert proposed that a photon is a particle of electromagnetic radiation with no mass that carries a quantum of energy, therefore electromagnetic radiation has both wavelike and particle-like natures.
  • Robert Millikan

    Robert Millikan

    Determined the charge of electrons.
  • Ernest Rutherford

    Ernest Rutherford

    Ernest studied how positive alpha particles interacted with solid matter. He thought that most of the fat-moving particles along witht eh large alpha particles to pass through gold atoms, but with a slight deflection by electrons in the gold atoms.
  • Titanic sunk

    Titanic sunk

  • Henry Moseley

    Henry Moseley

    He discovered that atoms of each element contain a unique positive charge in their nuclei which means the number of protons in an atom identifies it as an atom of a particular element.
  • Niels Bohr

    Niels Bohr

    He made a quantum model for the hydrogen atom.
  • Jouis deBroglie

    Jouis deBroglie

    He proposed an idea that eventually accounted for the fixed energy levels of Bohr’s model.
  • Erwin Schrodinger

    Erwin Schrodinger

    Erwin furthered the wave-particle theory proposed by de Broglie.
  • Werner Heisenberg

    Werner Heisenberg

    Werner concluded that it is impossible to make any measurement on an object without disturbing the object.
  • James Chadwick

    James Chadwick

    He thought nucleus also contained another subatomic particle, a neutral particle called the neutron. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HnmEI94URK8
  • Martin Luther Kings I Have a Dream speech

    Martin Luther Kings I Have a Dream speech

  • Terrorist attack on September 11.

    Terrorist attack on September 11.

  • Death of Osama Bin Laden

    Death of Osama Bin Laden