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.