History of the Atom

By chloe.j
  • Aristotle
    322

    Aristotle

    Aristotle proved that atoms move through any empty space as he didn’t believe in nothingness.
  • Democritus
    442

    Democritus

    Democritus created the word atom. He also worked out that matter was made of atoms.
  • Robert Boyle

    Robert Boyle

    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
  • Antonine Lavoisier

    Antonine Lavoisier

    Antoine La Voisier found that elements are broken down into simpler substances.
  • Antonine Lavoisier

    Antonine Lavoisier

    Antonine Lavoisier created the Law of Conservation of Matter.
  • Joseph Proust

    Joseph Proust

    Joseph Proust created the laws that have a relation to compounds.
  • Dalton

    Dalton

    Dalton found that matter is very small, as it can’t be broken down to anything smaller than what it is.
  • Thomson

    Thomson

    Thompson found that atoms are made up of even smaller parts and that they are dividable.
  • Rutherford

    Rutherford

    From studies, Rutherford found that the atom is mostly empty space.
  • Marie and Perrie Curies

    Marie and Perrie Curies

    Marie and Perrie Curies discovered elements that are now part of the Periodic Table.
  • Henry Mosley

    Henry Mosley

    Mosley discovered that each atom has a different positive charge in the nuclei.
  • Robert Millikan

    Robert Millikan

    Robert Millikan performed an experiment with led to him finding the charge of one electron.
  • Bohr

    Bohr

    Bohr concluded that a shell made of electrons surrounds the atoms.
  • Schrodinger

    Schrodinger

    The scientist Schrodinger found that you could use an equation to get a rough idea of where an atom is.
  • Chadwick

    Chadwick

    Chadwick found the neuron.