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Democritus born in Abdera, Thrace.
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Democritus announces the atomic theory, with his work based on his teacher, Leucippus.
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Democritus dies in Abdera, Thace
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Antoine Lavoisier born in Paris, France
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John Dalton is born in Eaglesfield, England
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Lavoisier comes up with the Law of Conservation of Mass by working with a number of different elements
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Antoine Lavoiser dies in Paris, France
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Dalton proposes his Atomic Theory becasue of his work and interest with atmospheric pressure
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John Dalton dies in Manchester England
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J.J. Thomson born in Manchester, UK
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Max Planck born in Kiel, Germany
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Marie Curie born in Warsaw, Poland
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Robert Milikan is born in Morrison, Illinois
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Ernest Rutherford born in Brightwater, New Zealand
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Albert Einstein born in Ulm, Germany
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Niels Bohr born in Copenhagen, Denmark
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Erwin Schrodinger is born in Vienna, Austria-Hungary
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James Chadwick born in Bollington, UK
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Louis De Broglie is born in Dieppe, France
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J.J. Thomson discovers the electron through a series of experiments used to study the nature of electric discharge and work with his Cathode Ray Tube
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Max Planck did a series of experiments and came up with the Quantom Theory
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Werner Heisenberg is born in Wurzburg, Germany
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Marie Curie worked with her husband and discovered radioacivity comes from inside the atom and came up with the term "radioactivity"
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J.J. Thomson shows his Plum Pudding Model of the atom
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Robert Millikan discovers the size of charge on a single electron by doing his Oil Drop Experiment
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Ernest Rutherford discovered the nucleus of the atom from his Gold Foil Experiment
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Niels Bohr shows off his model of the atom, using Rutherford's model as a base
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Albert Einstein publishes his theory of general relativity
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Louis De Broglie discovers the wave nature of electrons from his work with x-rays
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Erwin Schrodinger shows off his model of the atom, called the Cloud Model, that was created by using mathematical equations
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Werner Heizenburg comes up with the uncertainty principle based on radiation emitted by the atom
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James Chadwick discovers the neutron based off of Marie Curie and her husband's work.
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Marie Curie dies in Passy, Haute-Savoie, France
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Ernest Rutherford dies in Cambridge, UK
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J.J. Thomson dies in Cambridge, UK
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Max Planck dies in Gottingen, Germany
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Robert Millikan dies in San Marino, California
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Albert Einstein dies in Princeton, New Jersey
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Erwin Schrodinger dies in Vienna, Austria
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Niels Bohr dies in Copenhagen, Denmark
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James Chadwick dies in Cambridge, UK
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Werner Heizenburg dies in Munich, Germany
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Louis De Broglie dies in Loveciennes, France