Atom

The History of The Atom

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  • Period: 300 to 500

    Various Greek scientist theorize

  • Democritus discovers the atom
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    Democritus discovers the atom

    c. 400 - 370 BCE a Greek scientist and philosopher, named Democritus theorized a small, indivisible, things. Later called Atoms
  • Period: Jan 1, 1300 to

    Important Scientist

  • Isaac Newton

    Isaac Newton

    Developed the Laws of Motion.
  • Antoine Lavoisier

    Antoine Lavoisier

    Proposed the Oxygen theory of combustion
  • John Dalton

    John Dalton

    proposed the "Atomic Theory" where atoms were based on properties of mass.
  • Michael Faraday

    Michael Faraday

    Studied what happened to solutions when elextricity was applie. Coined the term electrolysis.
  • J. Plucker

    J. Plucker

    Built the cathode ray tube, that was used in later experiments.
  • Dmitri Mendeleev

    Dmitri Mendeleev

    Arranged the known elements into 7 specific groups.
  • James Clerk Maxwell

    James Clerk Maxwell

    proposed the idea that magnetic and electric fields filled the void between atoms.
  • Sir William Crookes

    Sir William Crookes

    Discovered various properties about the cathode ray tube, like how they travel in a straight line, and cause glass to fluoresce.
  • E. Goldstein

    E. Goldstein

    Used a CRT to study canal rays.
  • G.J. Stoney

    G.J. Stoney

    Said the electricity was made of discrete negative particles.
  • Wilhelm Roentgen

    Wilhelm Roentgen

    Found "X-rays" coming from a CRT that didn't get defleted by a magnetic field.
  • J.J. Thomson

    J.J. Thomson

    experimentally determined the charge to mass ratio of an electron,
  • Ernest Rutherford

    Ernest Rutherford

    Found and named Alpha and Beta particles
  • Marie Sklodowska Curie

    Marie Sklodowska Curie

    discovered and coined the term "radioactivity"
  • Max Planck

    Max Planck

    Used quanta to explain hot glowing matter
  • Albert Einstein

    Albert Einstein

    Developed the equation E=mc2
  • Robert Millikan

    Robert Millikan

    Determined the charge carried by an electron
  • Ernest Rutherford

    Ernest Rutherford

    Found that the nucleus was very dense and very small. Also assumed that electros were located outside the nucleus.
  • Werner Heisenberg

    Werner Heisenberg

    Proposed Principle of Indeterminancy
  • Erwin Schrodinger

    Erwin Schrodinger

    introduced "wave mechanics"
  • James Chadwick

    James Chadwick

    Discovered neutral atomic particles
  • Louis de Broglie

    Louis de Broglie

    Made groundbreaking contributions to quantum theory. Had multiple theories.
  • Niels Bohr

    Niels Bohr

    Developed an explanation of atomic structure
  • Biblography

    18 days. (2015, September 7). Retrieved September 17, 2015.
    Buescher, L. (2004). Atomic Structure Timeline. Retrieved September 17, 2015.History of atoms. (2004, November 1). Retrieved September 17, 2015.

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