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Thales 624 B.C.
Thought all things were made of water. -
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Democritus--400B.C.
first person to think of the atom. thougt it was a solid sphere. -
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Aristotle--384 B.C.
Didnt believe in the Atomic Theory. Believed all substances were made of fire, water, earth, and air. -
Newton
He agreed with democritus -
Dalton
atomic theory, first to have experimental evidence. -
Henri Becquerel
Discovered reactivity, couldn't explain it. -
Joseph John Thomson
Discovred the electron, cathode ray experiments. -
Ernest Rutherford
discovered the nucleus, golf foil experiment. -
Millikan
oil drop experiment, found the charge of an electron -
Niels Bohr
Created the bohr model, though electrons orbited around the nucleus. -
Ervin Schrodinger
atomic model was the quantum mechanical model. -
James Chadwick
Proved the existence of neutrons.