Atomic theory Time line

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  • John Dalton

    John Dalton
    Name - John Dalton
    Year/s he worked - 1803
    Nationality - English
    His contributions - Introducing the atomic theory to chemistry
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  • Marie Curie

    Marie Curie
    Name - Marie Curie
    Year/s worked - 1893
    Nationality - French+polish
    Contribution - discovery of radium and polonium
  • Henri becquerel

    Henri becquerel
    Name - Henri becquerel
    year/s worked - 1896
    Nationality - French
    His contribution - discovery of spontaneous radioactivity
  • JJ Thomson

    JJ Thomson
    Name - Joseph john Thomson
    year/s He worked - 1897
    Nationality - Scottish
    His contribution - experiments with cathode ray tubes showed that all atoms contain tiny negatively charged subatomic particles or electrons
  • Fredrick Soddy

    Fredrick Soddy
    Name - Fredrick Soddy
    Year/s He worked - 1903-04
    His nationality - British
    His contribution - discovered that all radioactive preparations were not unique elements, but rather that some of them were variants of known elements.
  • Ernest Rutherford

    Ernest Rutherford
    Name - Ernest Rutherford
    Years he worked - 1907
    Nationality - New zealand
    Contribution - He found that the atom is mostly empty space, with almost all its mass concentrated at the central nucleas.
  • Erwin shcrödinger

    Erwin shcrödinger
    Name - Erwin shcrödinger
    Year/s He worked - 1926
    Nationality - Austrian
    His contribution - used mathematical equations to describe the likelihood of finding an electron in a certain position.
  • James chadwick

    James chadwick
    Name - James Chadwick
    Year/s He worked - 1943-46
    Nationality - British
    His contribution - He proved the existence of neutrons – elementary particles devoid of any electrical charge.