The History of the Atom

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  • Democrates (460 BC)
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    Democrates (460 BC)

    DemocritusHe named paritcles atoms
  • John Dalton

    John Dalton

    John DaltonBased his theory of Atoms on experiments. Also created many theories around atoms.
  • JJ Thompson

    JJ Thompson

    JJ ThompsonWas the first person to discover that atoms were created from smaller subatomic partacles.
  • Ernest Rutherford

    Ernest Rutherford

    Ernest RutherfordDiscovered that there were positive and negatively charges subatomic particles. Learned that there was a nucleus of an atom and that there was a nucleus with electrons flying around it.
  • Neils Bohr

    Neils Bohr

    Fixed Rutherford's model of the atom. Said that electrons with low energy orbit closer to the nucleus, and vice versa.
  • James Chadwick

    James Chadwick

    Neils BohrChadwick was credited with the discocery of a nevagive subatomic partacle, that he called the neutron