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The atom timeline

  • Dalton solid sphere models

    Dalton solid sphere models

    Dalton thought individual atoms were solid, hard spheres, so he modeled them with wooden balls
  • Thompson: The Plum Pudding Model

    Thompson: The Plum Pudding Model

    atoms were not the smallest unit of matter, and they may be made up of both positive and negatively charged subatomic particles.
  • Rutherford: The Nuclear Model

    Rutherford: The Nuclear Model

    A atom consists of a very small, positively charged nucleus surrounded by the negatively charged electrons.
  • Bohr: The Bohr (Planetary) Model

    Bohr: The Bohr (Planetary) Model

    the electrons encircle the nucleus of the atom in specific allowable paths called orbits.
  • Schrodinger: Quantum Mechanics Model

    Schrodinger: Quantum Mechanics Model

    the behavior of electrons within atoms could be explained by treating them mathematically as matter waves.
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