Luke Horak: Atomic Timeline

  • Democritus
    430 BCE

    Democritus

    Introduced the idea of the atom.
  • Plato
    428 BCE

    Plato

    Thought that atoms of matter must derive from five fundamental solids.
  • Rober Boyle

    Rober Boyle

    Robert Boyle defined elements, compounds, and mixtures, and made the new field chemical analysis
  • Antone Lavoisier

    Antone Lavoisier

    He found that the total mass of products and reactants in a chemical reaction is always the same.
  • John Dalton

    John Dalton

    His theory proposed that all matter was composed of atoms, invisible and indestructible building blocks.
  • The Alchemists

    The Alchemists

    Laid down the foundation for the periodic table of elements.
  • JJ Thompson

    JJ Thompson

    All atoms contain tiny negatively charged subatomic particles or electrons.
  • Pierre and Marie Curie

    Pierre and Marie Curie

    Discovered the strongly radioactive elements polonium and radium.
  • Albert Einstein

    Albert Einstein

    Mathematically proved the existence of the atom.
  • Robert Millikan

    Robert Millikan

    Thought that there is a fundamental electric charge which is the charge of an electron.
  • Ernest Rutherford

    Ernest Rutherford

    Pioneered studies of radioactivity and the atom.
  • Neils Bohr

    Neils Bohr

    Theory proposed that electrons move around a nucleus in only certain orbits.
  • Henry G. J. Mosely

    Henry G. J. Mosely

    The atomic number is the number of positive charges in the atomic nucleus.
  • Dmitri Mendeleev

    Dmitri Mendeleev

    The periodic classification of the chemical elements.
  • Erwin Schrodinger

    Erwin Schrodinger

    Found the mathematical equations to describe the likelihood of finding an electron in a certain position.
  • James Chadwich

    James Chadwich

    Discovered the neutron.