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History of Atoms

By Lbaca09
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    Greeks

    Greeks
    The Greeks were the first to talk about an atom, they called it "atomos." They said an atom can not into pieces
  • Oct 10, 600

    William Crookes

    William Crookes
    Was the one who made the cathod ray tube out of vacume parts. Was uncertain what it was. Later was used in Thomsons ecperiment.
  • Oct 9, 1000

    J.J. Thompson

    J.J. Thompson
    J.J. Thompson messed with the cathod ray tube by having the beam interact with eletric and magnitic fields. Thompson was able to determine the mass ratio for an election. With that, they were able to determine it was very very small. Thomson also made the plum pudding experiment, where the electrons are the choclate chips (and negivialy charged) and the icecream is the positive.
  • Oct 9, 1300

    Ernest Rutherford

    Ernest Rutherford
    Rutherford is the one who found out the atom had a nucleus, that all the positive charce is in the middle.
  • Bhor

    Bhor
    Bhor thoght an atom had a rotaion like the earths. That the electrons had a rotation just like our solar syestem.
  • Werner Heisenberg

    Werner Heisenberg
    They say that the electons move so fast that you cannot see them.
  • John Dalton

    John Dalton
    John Dalton later said that the atoms looks like metal spheres and that they cannot be seperated from eacother.