History of Atomic Theory timeline

  • 300

    Aristotle

    Aristotle
    A greek philosopher and scientist. Believed that everything was a combination of the four elements earth, fire,water,air. This theory was incomprehensible size everywhere called hyle
  • 400

    Democritus

    Democritus
    First person to suggest that materials were made up of smaller things. As he called them atomos. That everything is its own type of atomos as it doesn't matter what size it is
  • 1494

    George Bauer

    George Bauer
    Found the first natural science upon observation as to speculation
  • Robert Boyle

    Robert Boyle
    He studied glass and he proposed that elements are composed of corpuscles of various types and sizes are able to organize themselves into groups that represent different chemical substances.
  • Antoine Lavoisier

    Antoine Lavoisier
    He created the Law of Conservation
  • Joseph Proust

    Joseph Proust
    Founded the Law of Definite Proportions.
  • Amadeo Avogadro

    Amadeo Avogadro
    He found out that equal volume of gas at the same temperature and pressure have same number of molecules.
  • Joseph Gay-Lussac

    Joseph Gay-Lussac
    He created the Law of combining volume of gas.
  • John Dalton

    John Dalton
    Matter is composed of extremely small things.
    Atoms are indivisible and indestructible.
    Atoms of a given element are identical in size.
    Atoms are of specific elements are different that those of other elements

    In a chemical reaction atoms separate and combine or rearrange.
  • J.J Thomas

    J.J Thomas
    Created the cathode ray.
  • Henri Becquerel

    Henri Becquerel
    First person to discover evidence of radioactivity.
  • Ernest Rutherford

    Ernest Rutherford
    He found that this came out to be true.
    An alpha particle (α=He^+2) is positive
    A Beta particle (β=e-) is negative
    A neutral particle (ϒ) is light
  • Max Planck

    Max Planck
    Discovered the energy quanta.
  • Niels Bohr

    Niels Bohr
    Discovered the structure of a Atom.
  • Robert Millikan

    Robert Millikan
    The measurement the elementary electric charge.
  • Louis de Broglie

    Louis de Broglie
    The nature of electrons and found that all matter was properties.
  • Werner Heisenberg

    Werner Heisenberg
    a key pioneer of quantum mechanics.
  • Erwin Schrodinger

    Erwin Schrodinger
    Developed a number of fundamental.