History of the Atom

By GarrettFoster05
  • Gutenberg Printing Press
    Jan 1, 1450

    Gutenberg Printing Press

  • Discovery of the Americas
    Jan 1, 1492

    Discovery of the Americas

  • Reformation of the Catholic Church
    Jan 1, 1500

    Reformation of the Catholic Church

  • Galileo Convicted of Heresy

    Galileo Convicted of Heresy

  • Joseph Priestley- Discoverd oxygen, carbon monoxide, and nitrous oxide

    Joseph Priestley- Discoverd oxygen, carbon monoxide, and nitrous oxide

  • Declaration of Independence

    Declaration of Independence

  • Antoine Lavoisier- Law of Conservation of Mass

    Antoine Lavoisier- Law of Conservation of Mass

  • Alessandro Volta- Electrochemical cell and battery

    Alessandro Volta- Electrochemical cell and battery

  • John Dalton

    John Dalton

    Proposed the modern Atomic theory
  • Michael Faraday- Electricty and Electrochemistry

    Michael Faraday- Electricty and Electrochemistry

  • Civil War

    Civil War

  • Louis Pastuer- Pastuerization

    Louis Pastuer- Pastuerization

  • Alfred Nobel- Dynamite

    Alfred Nobel- Dynamite

  • Transcontinental Railroad

    Transcontinental Railroad

  • Eugen Goldstein

    Eugen Goldstein

    Proposed the raisin pudding model of the atom
  • Guglielmo Marconi- Radio

    Guglielmo Marconi- Radio

  • Henri Becquerel- Radioactivity

    Henri Becquerel- Radioactivity

  • J. J. Thomson

    J. J. Thomson

    Discovered the electron
  • Marie Curie- Radioactivity

    Marie Curie- Radioactivity

  • Ernest Rutherford

    Ernest Rutherford

    Discovered alpha and beta radiation
  • Max Planck

    Max Planck

    Revolutionized the quatum mechanics of atoms
  • Albert Einstein

    Albert Einstein

    Mathematically proved the existance of atoms
  • Robert Millikan

    Robert Millikan

    Determined the charge of the electron
  • Niels Bohr

    Niels Bohr

    Discovered energy shells of electrons and invented the Bohr model
  • Henry Moseley

    Henry Moseley

    Developed our modern understanding of the Atomic Number
  • Assassination of Archduke Ferdinand

    Assassination of Archduke Ferdinand

  • Bolshevik Revolution

    Bolshevik Revolution

  • Treaty of Versailles

    Treaty of Versailles

  • Sir Frederick Banting- Isolated insulin

    Sir Frederick Banting- Isolated insulin

  • Louis de Broglie

    Louis de Broglie

    Proposed the particle-wave duality
  • Erwin Shrodinger

    Erwin Shrodinger

    Invented wave mechanics
  • Werner Heisenberg

    Werner Heisenberg

    Proposed the neutron-proton model of the atom and speculated on the behavior of electrons
  • Philo Farnsworth- TV

    Philo Farnsworth- TV

  • James Chadwick

    James Chadwick

    Discovered the neutron
  • Leo Szilard- nuclear chain reactions and atomic bomb

    Leo Szilard- nuclear chain reactions and atomic bomb

  • Wallace Carothers- Neoprene and Nylon

    Wallace Carothers- Neoprene and Nylon

  • Bombing of Pearl Harbor

    Bombing of Pearl Harbor

  • Initial Concept for the Internet

    Initial Concept for the Internet

  • First Cellular Phone

    First Cellular Phone

  • Kary Mullis- Polymerase chain reaction

    Kary Mullis- Polymerase chain reaction