Atom

History of the Atom

  • Aristotle
    400

    Aristotle

    Aristotle did not believe in the Atomic Theory. He believed that everything was made up from ffire, air, earth, and water. this model was adapted in 400 B.C. It
  • Democritus
    450

    Democritus

    Thought to have developed the first Atomic theory. Said you could eventually get the the smallest piece of matter
  • Antoine Lavoisier

    Antoine Lavoisier

    Discovered Hydrogen and Oxygen. Discpvered the role Oxygen plays in combustion.
  • John Dalton

    John Dalton

    Developed the Atomic Theory.
  • Henri Becquerel

    Henri Becquerel

    Henri Becquerel discovered radioactivity. This produced a charecteristic of elements on the peridoic table.
  • Marie & Pierre Curie

    Marie & Pierre Curie

    Together they discovered Polonium and Radium, Marie coined the term "Radioactivity".
  • Max Planck

    Max Planck

    Planck developed the Quantum Theory.
  • J.J. Thomson

    J.J. Thomson

    Thomson discovered the electron by studying the electric discharge in a high-vacuum cathode-ray tube,
  • Robert Millikan

    Robert Millikan

    Discovered the charge of the electron. Used the oil-drop apparatus to measure oil droplets suspended by gravity.
  • Henry Mosely

    Henry Mosely

    Studied under Ernest Rutherford. Established Atomic numbers and improved the periodic table.
  • Niels Bohr

    Niels Bohr

    Niels Bohr created the Bohr model. It stated that electrons orbit around a nucleus in energy leverls. He perfected Ernest Rutherford's model.
  • Ernest Rutherford

    Ernest Rutherford

    Rutherford studied inder J.J. Thomson. He conducted the Gold foil experiment in which he transmuted one element into another.
  • Werner Heisenberg

    Werner Heisenberg

    He discovered the allotropic forms of Hydrogen. It was based on the radiation emitted by an Atom.
  • Erwin Shrodinger

    Erwin Shrodinger

    He developed an equation to find the energy level of an atom.
  • James Chadwick

    James Chadwick

    James Chadwick discovered the Nuetron. He studied under Ernest Rutherford. He also established the atomic number. Added the Nuetron to the Atomic model and theory.