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1897
JJ Thompson set out to find out what mysterious light rays were -
1910
New Physical Laboratory opened in Manchester. Rutherford and his students studied the atom -
Late 1910
Henry Mosley created the theory that an atom must be empty space but with dense center and concentrated. -
1913
Darwin leaves partnership with Mosley -
1914
Mosley found that each element had a unique x-ray spectrum -
1934
German chemist split Uranium atom by bombarding it with neutrons -
1938
Enrico Fermi fired neutrons at Uranium to find that atom it would lower its atomic number and changing the element. -
Late 1938
Nuclear Fission discovered -
1941
Element 94 was found, plutonium. This was kept secret due to word war. -
Today
We are still learning about atoms today