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The Atom

  • Democritus
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    Democritus

    Found the atom and said that all atoms are invisable
  • John Dalton

    John Dalton

    Proposed the Atomic theory and said that atoms can't be made or destroyed
  • JJ Thomson

    JJ Thomson

    Atoms are balls of positive charge that contains a number of electrons, and discovered electrons
  • Aston

    Aston

    Discovered isotopes through a mass spectograph
  • Nelis Bohr

    Nelis Bohr

    Father of Quantam theory, he said that "a atom is a succesive or bital shells of electrons" he came up with the "Bohr Planetary Model"
  • Ernest Rutherford

    Ernest Rutherford

    Father of Nucleus Physics,developed the "Gold Foil Experiment", also determined that a atoms nucleus is very dense and that it has a positive charge.
  • Erwin Schrodinger

    Erwin Schrodinger

    Developed the "Electron Cloud Theory", and that it's probable location of moving particles.
  • John Cockroft and Ernest Walton

    John Cockroft and Ernest Walton

    Built the early linear accelerrator, bombarded the element lithium with protons to create alpha particles, split an atom for the first time that later led to the atomic bomb
  • James Chadwick

    James Chadwick

    Discovered the neutron and that a neutron weighed the same as a proton
  • Enrico Fermi

    Enrico Fermi

    Conducted the first chain reaction of releasing energy from the atoms nucleus