J Wilder Famous Dead Guys Timeline

By jailyn.wilder
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    Democritus - 429 BC

    First person to think of the atom.
    Thought atom was a solid sphere.
  • 102

    Aristotle - 400 BC

    Determined that all things were made up of fire, water, earth, and air.

  • Sir Isaac Newton

    Thought everything was made up of atoms.

  • John Dalton

    True: All matter=atoms
    False: Atoms=no destroy
    False: Atoms of same element=identical
    True: Diff. elements= different atoms
    True: Chem. reaction=atoms rearranged
    True: compounds=atoms of different elements

  • Henri Becquerel

    Helped discovery radioactivity

  • Joseph John Thomson

    Found electrons
    Thought atoms looked like plum pudding

  • Robert Milikan

    Measured the charge and mass of electron

  • Ernest Rutherford

    Central position- nucleus surrounded by negative orbiting electrons.

  • Niels Bohr

    Depicted atoms as small, positively charged nucleus surrounded by electrons- moved in circular motion

  • Francis Aston

    Discovered isotopes of non-radioactive elements

  • Erwin Schrodinger

    Discovered formula that calculated the odds of where an electron might be.
    Proved Bohr model incorrect

  • James Chadwick

    Discovered the neutron