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The greeks called small particles-"Atomos".The greek word"Atomos" means invisible.
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John Dalton is born in Cockermouth.
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John Dalton comes up with the atomic theory with 5 main points: matter is made of atoms,atoms can't be divided into smaller pieces,all the atoms of an element are exactly alike,atoms are hard spheres that are the same,compounds are combination of elements.
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William Crookes is born in London
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John Dalton dies in Manchester.
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JJ Thompson is born in Cheetham Hill
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Ernest Rutherford is born in Brightwater.
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William Crookes creates the Cathode Ray Tube or CRT.He did experiments with glass and a vacuum tube and the glass tube had two metal pieces known as electrodes.
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Neils Bohr is born in Copenhagen.
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Werner Heisenberg is born in Wurzburg
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JJ Thomson creates the Plum pudding model which explains that atoms are composed of electrons surrounded with positive and negative charges of electrons.
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Ernest Rutherford theorizes that atoms are like the planets of the solar system and discovers the nucleus.
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He developes a model of an atom with a nucleus in the center and electrons in orbit around it.
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William Crookes dies in London
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Werner Heisenberg creates the isotope
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Ernest Rutherford dies in Cambrige
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JJ Thompson dies in Cambridge
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Neils Bohr dies in Copenhagen
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Werner Heisenberg dies in Munich