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460 BCE
Democritus
He was the first person to have the idea that atoms or small indestructible things formed everything in the universe. -
John Dalton
He was a English Chemist, Physicist, meteorologist. He also introduced the Atomic Theory into chemistry. -
Dmitri Mendeleev
He is most well known for creating the periodic table but he is also known for figuring out how to arrange elements by atomic mass. -
Eugen Goldstien
He was a german physicist and he discovered anode rays but he is most well known for discovering the proton. -
J. J. Thompson
He was an English Physicist and his most notable achievement is discovering the electron. -
Max Planck
He is a german physist and is best known for his discovery of the quantum theory which revolutionized human understanding of the atomic process. -
Robert Andrews Millikan
He was an American physicist that won the nobel prize for figuring out how to measure electron charge. -
Ernest Rutherford
He was a New-Zealand born physicist who discovered many things about nuclear physics. He also discovered that atoms have a small nucleus. -
Niels Bohr
He was a Danish physicist who helped further the study of atomic structure and the quantum theory. -
Erwin Shrodinger
He was an Austrian physicist who won the nobel prize. He also discovered that he could predict the positions of electrons. -
James Chadwick
He was a british physicist who won the nobel prize and helped the US research atomic bombs. He also discovered neutrons in atoms. -
Werner Heisenberg
He was a German theoretical physicist he won the nobel prize and is best well known for his discoveries in quantum physics.
