History of the Atom Project

  • John Dalton

    John Dalton
    John Dalton discovered the atomic theory. The atomic theory is a theory that all matter is made from small invisible particles.
  • Dimitri Mendeleev

    Dimitri Mendeleev
    Mendeleev was credited for creating and discovering the table of elements.
  • JJ Thomson

    JJ Thomson
    JJ Thomson was credited with discovering the atomic model, he also discovered that for every negatively charged atom there was a positively charged one.
  • Ernest Rutherford

    Ernest Rutherford
    Ernest Rutherford was also known as the father of the Nuclear physics, but he discovered positively and negatively charged atoms, he also credited with the gold foil experiment.
  • Niels Bohr

    Niels Bohr
    Bohr won a Noble Prize for his work in discovering the atomic structure.
  • James Chadwick

    James Chadwick
    James Chadwick was a physicist that was credited with discovering the neutron.