Atomic Model Timeline

  • The Alchemists
    500 BCE

    The Alchemists

    Alchemy was based off of belief that there were four major elements in nature: Air, water, fire and earth. They learned how to change basic substances into other substances.
  • Democritus
    442 BCE

    Democritus

    Developed the atomic theory for the universe, his atomic theory anticipated the modern principles of the conservation of energy and irreducibility of matter.
  • aristotle
    384 BCE

    aristotle

    Knowledge of natural science including physics, astronomy, meteorology, and plants and animals.
  • Plato
    350 BCE

    Plato

    5 regular solids "platonic." He Solves that objects in the material world are all distinct.
  • Robert Boyle

    Robert Boyle

    Discovery that atoms must exist based on the relationship between pressure and volume of gas.
  • Lavoisier

    Lavoisier

    Lavoisier was the founder of modern chemistry. Clarified concept of an element as a simple substance that could not be broken down by any known method of chemical analysis and he devised a theory of the formation of chemical compounds from elements.
  • John Dalton

    John Dalton

    Developed atomic theory. Matter is composed of differing weights and combine in simple ratios in weight. John dalton also created the solid sphere of billiard ball model as seen in the picture.
  • Dimitri Mendeleev

    Dimitri Mendeleev

    The resulting table displayed a recurring pattern.
  • Ernest Rutherford

    Ernest Rutherford

    Found 2 types of radiation, alpha and beta. He created the solar system model. Also found that the atom consits of mostly empty space.
  • J.J. Thomson

    J.J. Thomson

    Discovered the electron. Revolutionized the atomic model. Created the plum pudding model.
  • The Curies

    The Curies

    Found that atoms are radioactive! Her theory allowed her to see how radioactive each elements are.
  • Robert Millikan

    Robert Millikan

    Experiements to determine the electric charge carried by a single electron.
  • Henry G.J. Mosely

    Henry G.J. Mosely

    Properties of the element are determined by the atomic number not by atomic weight.
  • Neils Bohr

    Neils Bohr

    Proposed the model of the atom.
  • Neils Bohr

    Neils Bohr

    explains the rydberg formula, proposed the model of the atom.
  • Albert Einstein

    Albert Einstein

    Albert Einstein was behind the making f the atomic bomb. The atomic bomb was created by spitting an atom by dropping a particle on the nucleus of an atom.
  • Werner Heisenberg

    Werner Heisenberg

    Discovery of uncertainty principle.