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500 BCE
the alchemist
developed the theory that all metals are composed of mercury and sulfur. Also that is possible to change base metals into gold. -
492 BCE
Democritus
Democritus is an ancient Greek Philosopher who first used the word "atom". -
460 BCE
Plato
Plato introduced the atom theory in which idle geometric forms serve as atoms, according to which atoms brake down mathematically into triangles. -
322 BCE
Aristole
Aristotle provided us with the knowledge of natural science including physics, which gives a vast amount of information on astronomy, meteorology, plants, and animals.' -
Robert Boyle
Robert mainly studied gases he discussed the possibility of atoms existing. However his work was greatly impeded by the church. -
Lavoisier
He was a French chemist, who is considered the founder of modern chemistry -
John Dalton
British Chemist and physicist who developed the atom theory upon which modern physical science if founded matter is composed of atoms. -
Dmitri Mendeleev
Dmitri was one of the founders of the Russian chemical societ. -
The curies
Pierre Curie and his wife Marie curie stated that Radioactive materials -
J.J Thomson
J.J Thomson was the first to discover electrons. -
Albert Einstein
he was know as the special and general theories of relativity and for his intelligent hypothesis concerning the particle nature of light -
Robert Millikan
American Physicist, bets known for his work in atomic physics and Major science dealing with fundamental constituents. -
Ernest Rutherford
British Physicist became a noble laureate for is theory of the atom. -
Neils Bohr
Neil Bohr was a Danish physicist who made foundational contributions to understand atomic structures and quantum theory. -
Henry G. J. Moseley
Mr. Mosely was an English Physicist who experimentally demonstrated that the major properties of an element are determined by the atomic number. -
Werner Heisenberg
Mr. Heisenberg contributed to atom theory through formulating quantum mechanics in terms of matrices in discovering the uncertainty principle.