Ten Fundamental Discoveries of Chemistry

  • Jan 1, 1488

    Leonardo Da Vinci Discovers Idea of Molecules

    The basis for which the discovery of molecules was made and that air had more than one gas.
  • Discovery of Oxygen

    Plastics and many other chemicals industries wouldn't be possible if it wasn't for the discovery of oxygen.
  • Uranium was Discovered

    In 1789, we learned that Uranium was another element with unique properties and can cause damage to tissues.
  • Dalton's discovery of properties of atoms

    He was the first to call particles atoms. He also found the atomic masses of elements.
  • Friedrich Wohler and Urea

    He found that organic chemicals can be synthesized by combining the building blocks in a particular fashion. He then knew everything is building blocks of matter.
  • The first spectroscope

    The first spectroscope was invented by the German chemist Robert Wilhelm Bunsen and the German physicist Gustav Robert Kirchhoff.
  • Kekule discovered the formation of Carbon-6 atoms

    They weren't chains of atoms as common thought but more like a snake of atoms. This allowed for so many different formations and bonds to occur, and the registry of 15 million new compounds.
  • Mandeleev formulated the periodic table

    He placed the elements in a particular order seperating them by periods and groups based on their atomic wait and characteristics.
  • Rutherford discovered radioactive decay

  • Electron Shells

    Niels Bohr discovered for the first time, subatomic particles.