Famous Dead People

  • Democritus
    500 BCE

    Democritus

    First to propose that atoms exist
  • Period: 450 BCE to

    Before Democritus, After Niels Bohr

  • Dalton

    Dalton

    Developed "Dalton's Atom Theory"
  • William Crookes

    William Crookes

    Discovered the element Thallium
  • William Crookes

    William Crookes

    Developed and created the Crookes tube
  • Antoine Henri Becquerel

    Antoine Henri Becquerel

    He discovered radioactivity
  • JJ Thomson

    JJ Thomson

    Discovered the electron
  • Marie Curie

    Marie Curie

    Discovered Polonium and Radium in 1898 while trying to investigate radioactivity in pitchblende (Uranium oxide)
  • Robert Andrews (R.A.) Millikan

    Robert Andrews (R.A.) Millikan

    Discovered the charge of a single electron
  • Niels Bohr

    Niels Bohr

    Developed the idea of quantum physics and created the Bohr Atomic Model
  • Erwin Schrodinger

    Erwin Schrodinger

    Developed the wave equation for quantum physics
  • James Chadwick

    James Chadwick

    Discovered the neutron
  • Ernest Rutherford

    Ernest Rutherford

    Discovered the nucleus