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460 BCE
Democritus
Democritus was a Greek philosopher who thought the Atom was a ball but his idea what remembered for 2000 years. -
384 BCE
Aristotle
Aristotle was a Greek philosopher who thought each atom was made of one of the five elements -
John Dalton
He was an English chemist who first thought atoms made everything and also thought the atom was a ball -
J.J. Thomson
He was an English Physicist who created the Plum Pudding model which was a model of positively charged electrons in a positively charged "soup" -
Ernest Rutherford
He was a New Zealand Physicist who thought that J.J. Thomson was wrong and that the centre was positively charged and the negative electrons circled around the centre -
Niels Bohr
He was a Danish physicist who thought the centre was called The ''Nucleus'' and the negative protons moved around it like a solar system -
Erwin Schrödinger
Erwin Rudolf Josef Alexander Schrödinger was an Austrian physicist who used maths to find an electron in the model of an atom. -
Werner Heisenberg
Werner Heisenberg was a German Physicist who figured out that we can`t know both the energy and the position of an electron.