Atomic Model

The Alchemists

500 BCE

The Alchemists broke down the chemical composition of the 4 basic elements of their period, fire, water, earth, and wind, and made it into the Periodic Table we all know and love. They also developed the theory that matter is composed of atoms of different weights.

Plato

427 BCE

Plato discovered that ideal geometric forms as atoms. The atoms are broke into shapes such as tetrahedron (which is fire), octahedron (which is air), icosahedron (which is water, and cube (which is earth).

Democritus

400 BCE

Democritus created a model that stated matter consists of invisible participles of atoms. He was also the one that stated everything is composed of atoms which is only physically indivisible.

Aristotle

322 BCE

Aristotle didn't believe the atomic theory and thought earth was made of the four elements instead of atoms. He was the reason that people didn't believe Democritus's theory back then.

Robert Boyle

1657

Robert Boyle proposed that elements are composed of corpuslces of various types of size that can organize themselves from different chemical substances. He also made the definition of element.

Lavoisier

1772

Lavoisier was the founder of the atomic model which was led by a theory of the law of conservation of mass. Lavoisier found that out through a series of experiments.

John Dalton

1803

John Dalton thought atoms were the smallest participles of matter, so he envision as solid, hard spheres that later became the billiard ball model. The Billiard Ball model is a atomic model that basically stats that all elements are composed of atoms.

Dmitri Mendeleev

1869

Mendeleev was the dude who created the first periodic table and periodic law. He made and found out about the periodic table when he was organizing elements.

The Curies

1898

Pierre and Marie Curie was the discovers of radioactivity. They found it out after successfully isolating the radioactive' s radium salt from the mineral pitchblende

J.J Thomson

1904

J.J. Thomson is the founder of the plum pudding model. It's a model that shows an atom that has a positivity charged medium (or space) with a negative charged electrons inside the medium.

Albert Einstein

1905

Albert Einstein was the person who proved that atoms exist, which discovered one of the most well known math things in science which is E=mc2. He discovered it with nuclear power and atomic weapons, he got into drama because of that, but a single refrigerator helped him out.

Robert Millikan

1909

Robert did an water drop experiment that led to him discovering that all the drops were multiples of a single number.

Ernest Rutherford

1911

Rutherford made a mode which described the atom as a tiny and positive charged known as a nucleus. He found it out during an gold foil experiment.

Henry G. J. Mosely

1913

Henry G. J. Mosely was a English physicist who contribute to the atom theory. While working in the University of Manchester, his observing and measuring of X-ray spectra of various chemical elements in crystals, he found out the relation between wave-length and atomic numbers.

Niels Bohr

1915

Niels Bohr proposed the solar system model (at the time, it was called the bohr model) which would show the atoms orbiting around the line like our planets. It uses negativity charged electrons with positivity charged nucleus atoms.

Werner Heisenberg

1925

Werner Heisenberg was the founder of the electron cloud model. The electron cloud model helps visualize the positions of electrons of a atom.