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Aristotle proved that atoms move through any empty space as he didn’t believe in nothingness.
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Democritus created the word atom. He also worked out that matter was made of atoms.
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Robert Boyle created a law to do with pressure and volume. The law is as follows: if the pressure is small, the volume is great; if the pressure is large, the volume is small
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Antoine La Voisier found that elements are broken down into simpler substances.
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Antonine Lavoisier created the Law of Conservation of Matter.
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Joseph Proust created the laws that have a relation to compounds.
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Dalton found that matter is very small, as it can’t be broken down to anything smaller than what it is.
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Thompson found that atoms are made up of even smaller parts and that they are dividable.
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From studies, Rutherford found that the atom is mostly empty space.
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Marie and Perrie Curies discovered elements that are now part of the Periodic Table.
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Mosley discovered that each atom has a different positive charge in the nuclei.
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Robert Millikan performed an experiment with led to him finding the charge of one electron.
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Bohr concluded that a shell made of electrons surrounds the atoms.
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The scientist Schrodinger found that you could use an equation to get a rough idea of where an atom is.
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Chadwick found the neuron.
