The History of the Atom

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  • Democritus
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    Democritus

    His model was a round sphere with no protons, neutrons, or electrons. His was the first atomic model.
  • Robert Boyle

    Robert Boyle

    He discussed the possibility of atoms existing, but was impeded by the church.
  • Antoine Lavoisier

    He proposed the combustion theory based on sound mass measurements.
  • John Dalton

    John Dalton

    He developed the law of multiple proportions.
  • Dmitri Mendeleev

    Dmitri Mendeleev

    He proposed the periodic law.
  • Eugen Goldstein

    Eugen Goldstein

    He discovered that there is a cathode that travels in the opposite direction of the electrons.
  • J.J. Thompson

    J.J. Thompson

    He discovered corpuscles, now called electrons.
  • Max Planck

    Max Planck

    He found that protons should gain more energy from atoms than they lose.
  • Robert Millikan

    Robert Millikan

    Measured the charge of an electron.
  • Ernest Rutherford

    Ernest Rutherford

    Developed Rutherford Atomic Model.
  • Niels Bohr

    Niels Bohr

    Developed a new model of the atom.
  • James Chadwick

    James Chadwick

    He discovered the neutron.
  • Erwin Schrodinger

    Erwin Schrodinger

    Developed the quantum mechanical model of the atom.