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Parmenides 550 B.C.
Everything is made up of building blocks -
Democritus 400 B.C.
everything is made of atoms -
Aristotle 350 B.C.
all matter is fire, water, earth, and air no one argued because he was popular -
John dalto 1800
Daltons atomic theory
1.all elements are composed of indivisable atoms (false:nuclear reactions)
2. atoms of the same element are identical (isotopes/ions) the atoms of any one element are different of any other element (true)
3. atoms make compounds (true)
4. atoms are rearranged in chemical reactions, not created (true) -
Dmitri Mendeleev 1897
first periodic table
sorted by weights, left gaps for undiscovered elements -
JJ Thomson 1897
Discovered electrons
idea of sub atomic particals
"cathode ray tube" -
Milikan
Found charge and mass of electrons (1/2000 of an atom)
mass of atom -
Rutherford
positive nucleus with electrons around
gold foil experiment
shot alpha particals at golden foil. they should have all gone through but some bounced off -
Bohr
Electrons orbited in rings (energy levels) could jump from orbit to orbit to emit energy -
Chadwick 1932
Discovered neutrons
same model as bohr but with neutrons and electrons in nucleus -
Manhattan project 1941
Nuclear research
created atomic bomb for WW2
seperation of atom