Atomic Model Timeline

  • 500 BCE

    The Alchemist

    he developed this theory that all metals are composed of mercury and sulfur. he came up with this theory in 500 BC
  • 460 BCE

    Democritus

    he came up with the theory that atoms are made of everything
  • 427 BCE

    Plato

    Plato postulated a fifth atomic type exist which was later proven by Aristotle
  • 5 BCE

    Aristotle

    this man didn't believe in atoms he believed in in all four elements and that is what they were made of earth wind water and fire
  • Robert Boyle

    this man here helped make a definition of an element
  • Lavoisier

    this man found a breakthrough in the atomic model he found that the total mass of products and reactants
  • John Dalton

    this atomic theory that he came up with states that all matter is composed of atoms
  • Dmitri Mendeleev

    he found that chemical elements were arranged in order by the atomic weight of it
  • The Curies

    she discovered that the atoms remain in a constant state
  • J.J Thomson

    he experiment with cathode ray tubes which he then discovered that all atoms have negative particles
  • Albert Einstein

    in 1905 he roved the existence of atoms his theory states that any liquid is made of molecules
  • Ernest Rutherford

    he postulated the nuclear structure of the atom
  • Robert Millikan

    he began a series of experiments to see the electrical charge in a single electron
  • Neils Bohr

    he proposed a theory for hydrogen atoms
  • Henry G.J. Mosely

    he found a relationship between the frequencies of lines that correspond with one another
  • Werner Heisenberg

    he formulated quantum mechanics in terms of matrices