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  • Democritus
    400 BCE

    Democritus

    The founder of the idea of the atom which he called "atomos" the Greek word for indivisible, this came from his belief that if you keep cutting a stone eventually you couldn't cut it futher
  • John Dalton

    John Dalton

    Dalton created the first modern atom model called the plum pudding model. He also introduces the electron and proton
  • J,J. Thomson

    J,J. Thomson

    introduced the idea of the electron and created a new, "better" atom model
  • Ernest Rutherford

    Ernest Rutherford

    created a new model based on his finds that most of an atom is void space and introduced the nucleus.
  • Niels Bohr

    Niels Bohr

    Niels's model said that electrons moved in fixed orbits but with increasing of decreasing energy moves to a new ring of travel of even a different atom's orbit.
  • Schrodinger

    Schrodinger

    finalized the modern atom model where the position of the electrons can't be guaranteed