Atomic model

The History of the Atomic Model

  • 500 BCE

    Democritis

    Democritus found out that everything is amde out of smaller particels called atoms.
  • Dalton

    Dalton developed his theory of atoms and matter.
  • JJ Thomson - The Plum Pudding

    JJ Thomson discovered the Electron, by experimenting using electric charges.
  • Rutherford

    Rutherford developed the planetary model of the atom. He made the first atomic model.
  • Bohr

    Bohr developed another model of the atom and used laws of quantum physics to make a updated model.
  • James Chadwick-Bohr

    Chadwick was the one to complete the atomic model, by discovering Neutrons.

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