Atomic Model Timeline

  • The Alchemists
    500 BCE

    The Alchemists

    The Alchemists made the theory that all metals are made of sulfur and mercury and they could all be changed into gold. He thought that all atoms were made of different weights and can form into simple ratios by weight.
  • Plato
    427 BCE

    Plato

    He introduced how geometric forms serve as atoms.
  • Democritus
    400 BCE

    Democritus

    Democritus was one of the first to realize that everything is made of atoms
  • Aristotle
    322 BCE

    Aristotle

    His theory was that everything was made of non visible things called atoms.
  • Robert Boyle

    Robert Boyle

    He helped make a definition for an element
  • Lavoisier

    Lavoisier

    Lavoisier discovered how mass is conversed in a chemical reaction.
  • John Dalton

    John Dalton

    Dalton had a atomic theory that suggested that all matter was made of atoms, non visible, immortal building blocks.
  • Dmitri Mendeleev

    Dmitri Mendeleev

    He made the first Periodic Table. He found that all the chemical elements were arranged in order of uprising atomic weight.
  • The Curies

    The Curies

    The Curies discovered the radioactive elements radium and polonium.
  • J.J. Thomson

    J.J. Thomson

    J.J. Thomson determined the electron was an important part of the atom.
  • Albert Einstein

    Albert Einstein

    He proved the existence of atoms. He introduced the atomic equation E=mc2. He discovered that mass and energy cannot be changed.
  • Robert Millikan

    Robert Millikan

    Millikan discovered how electricity was made by a minuscule unit which is the electron.
  • Ernest Rutherofrd

    Ernest Rutherofrd

    Rutherford made the discovery of alpha and beta rays and suggested the laws of radioactive decomposition.
  • Niels Bohr

    Niels Bohr

    Niels Bohr made a theory for the hydrogen atom based on quantum theory.
  • Henry G. J. Moseley

    Henry G. J. Moseley

    Moseley discovered a systemic connection between atomic number and wave length.
  • Werner Heisenberg

    Werner Heisenberg

    Heisenberg discovered that a particle's momentum and location both cannot be known.