The History of the Atomic Theory

  • Democritus
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    Democritus

    came up with the idea of all matter consists of atoms
    and atoms are the smallest part of matter
  • Dalton

    Dalton

    came up with the atomic theory
  • Thomson

    Thomson

    discovered the electron
  • Millikan

    Millikan

    responsible for finding the charge of a single electron
    proved that subatomic particles do exist
  • Rutherford

    Rutherford

    discovered the nucleus
    theory of nucleus being positive
    and negativ electrons orbiting around it
  • Bohr

    Bohr

    he proposed the bohr model
  • Erwin Schrodinger

    Erwin Schrodinger

    created the wave model of the atom
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  • Aristotle

    Aristotle

    he proved subatomic partincles do exist