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  Becomes a student and believes that matter can be broken into smaller pieces.
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  A theory that natures basic particles were atom
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  Discovered all matter is made of atoms. Atoms are indivisible and indestructible.
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  Newlands published his "Law of Octaves" which states that "any given element will exhibit analogues behavior to the eighth element following it in the table."
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  Mendeleev's periodic table was published.
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  Crooke invents the Crooke's Tube.
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  Discovery of the electron and of isotopes,
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  Bohr invents his Atomic Model of the atom
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  Rutherford was widely credited with first splitting the atom and leading the first experiment to "split the nucleus".
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  Discovers the non electrical particle in the atomic nucleus a neutron.