History of Atomic Theory

  • Democritus
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    Democritus

    Discovered the atom.
  • John Dalton

    John Dalton

    Believed-
    1. Atoms are indivisable and indestructible.
    2.All atoms are of a given element are idential in mass and properties
    3.Compunds are formed by a combination of two or more different kinds of atoms.
    4. A chemical reaction is a rearrangement of atoms.
    5.Atoms can be neither created nor destroyed. He claimed that atoms look like spheres, with each elemont having its own size.
  • Neils Bohr

    Neils Bohr

    Proposed that electrons-
    1. Orbit the nucleus without losing energy.
    2. could only move in a fixed orbit of specific energies.
  • James Chadwick

    James Chadwick

    Discovered the neutron.
  • J.J. Thomson

    Won the Nobel prize in Physics.
  • Ernest Rutherford

    Ernest Rutherford

    Found out that Thomson's model of the atom was incorrect. Discovered the proton.