History of the Atom by: Irene Valenzuela

  • Atomic Model

    Atomic Model
  • John Dalton

    John Dalton
    -In 1803 he developed the first useful atomic theory of matter. His atomic theory makes the assumptions that all matter consists of tiny particles, atoms are indestructible or unchangeable, and elements are characterized by the mass of their atoms, when elements react, their atoms combine in simple, whole-number ratios, and that when elements react, their atoms sometimes combine in more than one simple, whole-number ratio.
  • William Crookes

    William Crookes
    In 1861 he discovered the element thallium. He also developed the Crookes tubes. In his investigations of the conduction of electricity in low pressure gases, he discovered that as the pressure was lowered, the cathode appeared to emit cathode rays, now known to be a stream of free electrons, and used in cathode ray display devices.
  • J.J Thomson

    J.J Thomson
    In 1897 he discovered the electron in a series of experiments designed to study the nature of electric discharge in a high vacuum cathode ray tube.
  • Thomson's Atomic Model

    Thomson's Atomic Model
    In 1904 he suggested the model of the atom as a sphere of positive matter in which electrons are positioned by electrostatic forces.
  • Ernest Rutheford

    Ernest Rutheford
    In 1911 he theorized that atoms have their own charge concentrated in a very small nucleus. He made the Rutherford Model through his discovery and interpretation of Rutherford scattering in his gold foil experiment.
  • Rutheford Model

    Rutheford Model
  • Niels Bohr

    Niels Bohr
    In 1913 he suggested that electrons could only have certain classical motions.
  • Bohrs Model

    Bohrs Model
    -In 1913 he introduced the Bohr’s model, this model shows the atom as a small, positively charged nucleus surrounded by electrons that travel in circular orbits around the nucleus.
  • The Quantum Mechanical Model

    The Quantum Mechanical Model
    The modern description of the electrons in atoms, the quantum mechanical model, comes from the mathematical solutions to the Schrodinger equation. It was created in 1926.
  • James Chadwick

    James Chadwick
    In 1932 he discovered the neutron.