Atomic Model

  • Alchemists
    500 BCE

    Alchemists

    Made a theory that metals are made of sulfur and mercury, it is possible to change base metals into gold.
  • Plato
    427 BCE

    Plato

    Atoms can break down into mathematical triangles.
  • Democritus
    400 BCE

    Democritus

    Everything is composed of atoms and are not physically visible.
  • Aristotle
    322 BCE

    Aristotle

    All matter is made of indivisible particles called atoms and formalized knowledge.
  • Solar system model
    1543

    Solar system model

  • Robert Boyle

    Robert Boyle

    Found out that any substance that is broken into two or more substances is not an element.
  • Lavoisier

    Lavoisier

    He found out that the total mass of products and reactants in a chemical reactions is always the same.
  • John Dalton

    John Dalton

    Composed that all matter is comped of atoms (building blocks).
  • Solid sphere of "billiard ball" model

    Solid sphere of "billiard ball" model

  • Dmitri Mendeleev

    Dmitri Mendeleev

    Putting the atomic weights in order and creating the periodic table.
  • Robert Millikan

    Robert Millikan

    Determined the electros charge.
  • J.J. Thomson

    J.J. Thomson

    Discovered the electron and make it a big thing.
  • The Curies

    The Curies

    Rays can be penetrated by certain atoms
  • "Plum Pudding" model

    "Plum Pudding" model

  • Albert Einstein

    Albert Einstein

    He proved the existence of atoms.
  • Ernest Rutherford

    Ernest Rutherford

    The atom is mostly empty space.
  • Neils Bohr

    Neils Bohr

    Hydrogen atoms only transfer certain well defined qualities.
  • Henry G.J. Mosley

    Henry G.J. Mosley

    He found unknown elements.
  • Electron cloud model

    Electron cloud model

  • Werner Heisenberg

    Werner Heisenberg

    He discovery the uncertainty principle.