Matt Pintal's Atomic Timeline

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    Greeks

    The greeks called small particles-"Atomos".The greek word"Atomos" means invisible.
  • John Dalton

    John Dalton is born in Cockermouth.
  • John Dalton

    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.
  • William Crookes

    William Crookes is born in London
  • John Dalton

    John Dalton dies in Manchester.
  • JJ Thompson

    JJ Thompson is born in Cheetham Hill
  • Ernest Rutherford

    Ernest Rutherford is born in Brightwater.
  • William Crookes

    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.
  • Neils Bohr

    Neils Bohr is born in Copenhagen.
  • Werner Heisenberg

    Werner Heisenberg is born in Wurzburg
  • JJ Thomson

    JJ Thomson creates the Plum pudding model which explains that atoms are composed of electrons surrounded with positive and negative charges of electrons.
  • Ernest Rutherford

    Ernest Rutherford theorizes that atoms are like the planets of the solar system and discovers the nucleus.
  • Neils Bohr

    He developes a model of an atom with a nucleus in the center and electrons in orbit around it.
  • William Crookes

    William Crookes dies in London
  • Werner Heisenberg

    Werner Heisenberg creates the isotope
  • Ernest Rutherford

    Ernest Rutherford dies in Cambrige
  • JJ Thompson

    JJ Thompson dies in Cambridge
  • Neils Bohr

    Neils Bohr dies in Copenhagen
  • Werner Heisenberg

    Werner Heisenberg dies in Munich