History of the Atom Timeline by Alyssa Turner

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    Democritus

    Democritus
    democritus-He discovered that atoms physically, but not geometrically, indivisible.
    -Back then there were no scientific methods
    -a marble
  • dalton

    dalton
    -He discovered that all matter is composed of tiny indivisible elements.
    -"billard ball model" he thought the atom looked like billard ball from pool.
  • thomson

    thomson
    -he discovered subatomic particle in the atom.
    -the moving particle will be acteed on by a force equal to HEV.
    -positive particles
  • rutherford

    rutherford
    -He discovered electrons and protons are uniformly mixed throughout the atom.
    -He used Thonsons hypothesis
    -all the protons in the neucleus and the electrons orbited around the neucleus like panets around the sun.