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Aristotle's Discovery 332 BC
Country : Greece
Discovery: All things are made up of matter. Objects are made up of 5 elements Aristotle belived existed : Fire. water, earth, air and ether. My anology: Ripple effect -
John Dalton's Discovery
Country: Manchester
Discovery: John Dalton belived that atoms were invisable featureless shperes, with no protons, neutrons or electrons
My anology: Metal Sphere -
Dmitri Mendeleev
Country: St. Petersburg
Discovery: Dimitri Mendeleev descovered the periodic table and his his final periodic table only had 66 elements. -
Henri Becquerel's discovery
Country: France
Discovery: Henri Becquerel discovered that radiotion does not only come from the sun and that it can be formed with certain types of chemicals. -
J.J Thomson's Discovery
Country; United Kingdom
Discovery: J.J Thomsons' discovery was the electrons inside the atom.
My Anology: A chocolate chip timbit -
Nagaoka's Discovery
Country: Europe
Discovery: Nagaokas's theory was that the atom was a positive sphere with a ring of electron surounding it.
My anology: Race cars driving in circles around a sphere. -
Mari curie
Country: Poland
Discovery: Marie curie studied the radiation of all compounds containig radioactive elements including uranium and thorium.
-she also discovered that you can measure the exact strenghth of radiation from uranuim.
-And that the amount of uranium or thorium in the compound predicts the intensity of radiation.
- The ability to extract radiation does not depend on the way the atoms are arranged it has something to do with the atom iyself. -
Rutherford's Discovery
Country: Manchester
Discovery: Ruthberen's theory discovery was that there was a nucleus in the atom and was surrounded by electrons.
My anology: ping pong balls bouncing off walls around a person standing in the middle. -
Niels Bohr's Discovery
Country: England
Discovery: Niels Bohr's theory was that there were a number of electrons on energy levels.
My Analogy: Solar System -
James Chadwich's Discovery
Country: Germany
Discovery: James Chadwick discovered that there are neutrons in an atom.
Anology: a chocolate and raisin timbit. -
Democritus' Discovery 492 BC
Country: Greece
Discovery: Atoms are always in motion and between and inside the atom lies empty space.
My anology: Metal sphere