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500 BCE
Alchemists
Made a theory that metals are made of sulfur and mercury, it is possible to change base metals into gold. -
427 BCE
Plato
Atoms can break down into mathematical triangles. -
400 BCE
Democritus
Everything is composed of atoms and are not physically visible. -
322 BCE
Aristotle
All matter is made of indivisible particles called atoms and formalized knowledge. -
1543
Solar system model
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Robert Boyle
Found out that any substance that is broken into two or more substances is not an element. -
Lavoisier
He found out that the total mass of products and reactants in a chemical reactions is always the same. -
John Dalton
Composed that all matter is comped of atoms (building blocks). -
Solid sphere of "billiard ball" model
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Dmitri Mendeleev
Putting the atomic weights in order and creating the periodic table. -
Robert Millikan
Determined the electros charge. -
J.J. Thomson
Discovered the electron and make it a big thing. -
The Curies
Rays can be penetrated by certain atoms -
"Plum Pudding" model
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Albert Einstein
He proved the existence of atoms. -
Ernest Rutherford
The atom is mostly empty space. -
Neils Bohr
Hydrogen atoms only transfer certain well defined qualities. -
Henry G.J. Mosley
He found unknown elements. -
Electron cloud model
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Werner Heisenberg
He discovery the uncertainty principle.