Story of science

  • Demoeritus
    500 BCE

    Demoeritus

    The Ancient Greeks believed that everything in our world was made out of four major elements which were; fire, water and air. They also believed everything around us was made of Earth (rock and dirt).
  • John Dalton

    John Dalton

    He investigated reactions of gases and ratios.
  • JJ Thomson

    JJ Thomson

    Made the plum pie model, where all electrons are mashed together in a single particle.
  • Niels Bohr

    Niels Bohr

    Created the Bohr Model, where the electron is treated as a particle in fixed orbits around the nucleus
  • Schrodinger

    Schrodinger

    Schrodinger discovered that electrons don't move in orbits (or in a set path at all). He theorized electrons move in waves, and they have no exact location.