History of Atomic Structure

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    Atomic Structure Timeline

  • John Dalton

    John Dalton

    Described atoms as tiny particles that could'nt be divided.
  • JJ Thomson

    JJ Thomson

    Electrons were smaller particles of an atom.
  • Robert A. Millikan

    Robert A. Millikan

    He did the oil drop experiment.
  • Ernest Rutherford

    Ernest Rutherford

    Isolated the postive paritcles in an aatom. Atom are in "empty space"
  • Neils Bohr

    Neils Bohr

    Electron traveled in fixed paths around nucleus.
  • Werner Heizenberg

    Werner Heizenberg

    Proposed that electron traveled in atomic orbitials.
  • Erwin Schrodinger

    Erwin Schrodinger

    Created equations of the path motion of electrons.