History of the atomic models

  • Period: 500 BCE to

    History of atomic models

  • Presocratic philosophers
    450 BCE

    Presocratic philosophers

    Leuccipus and Democritus were the first known in occidental culture who used the notion of atom in their speculations about the composition of matter
  • Lavoisiser's law

    Lavoisiser's law

    In chemical transformations matter may change its form or shape, but its mass remains the same.
  • Richter's law of reciprocal proportions

    Richter's law of reciprocal proportions

    The amounts of mass of different substances in chemical reactions are related.
  • Proust's law of definite proportions

    Proust's law of definite proportions

    Elements always form a compound in the same proportions in mass
  • Dalton's law of multiple proportions

    Dalton's law of multiple proportions

    The ratios between the masses of an element that reacts with a fixed mass of another element to form different compounds are simple whole numbers
  • Dalton's New System of Chemical Philosophy

    Dalton's New System of Chemical Philosophy

    Dalton supposed real different indestructible atoms formed matter
  • Cathode rays

    Cathode rays

    Crooke's tubes
  • The discovery of the electron

    The discovery of the electron

    Joseph John Thomson with a cathode rays tube
  • Rutherford's gold foil experiment

    Rutherford's gold foil experiment

    Atoms seem to be hollow
  • Thomson's model of atom

    Thomson's model of atom

    Positive sphere with electrons
  • Rutherford's atom

    Rutherford's atom

    Positive nucleus and electron turning around at long distances
  • Boht's atom

    Boht's atom

    Light and matter
  • Actual atomic model

    Actual atomic model

    Electron are in orbitals