Atomic Theory TImeline

By claireleasure
  • Jan 1, 1450

    GUTENBERG PRINTING PRESS

  • Jan 1, 1492

    DISCOVERY OF THE AMERICAS

  • Jan 1, 1517

    REFORMATION OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH

  • GALILEO CONVICTED OF HERESY

  • Joseph Priestley--discovered oxygen, carbon monoide, and nitrogen dioxide

  • DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE

  • Antoine Lavoisier--law of conservation of mass;father of modern chemistry

  • Alessandro Volta--electrochemical cell and batteries

  • John Dalton--made "Daltons Atomic Theory" with 4 points proving the atom as a fundamental chemical object

  • Michael Faraday--electricity and electrochemistry

  • CIVIL WAR

  • Louis Pasteur--pasteurization process

  • Alfred Nobel--dynamite

  • FIRST TRANSCONTINETAL RAILROAD IN U.S.

  • Eugen Goldstein--discovered protons and anode rays

  • Guglielmo Marconi--radio

  • Henri Becquerel--radioactivity

  • J.J. Thomson--suggested plum pudding model

  • Marie Curie--radioactivity

  • Max Planck--discovered quantum

  • Alfred Nobel--Nobel Prize

  • Albert Einstein--proved the existence of atoms

  • Robert Millikan--measured the charge of the electron

  • Ernest Rutherford--proposed Rutherford's Planetary model of the atom

  • Henry Moseley-- published the results of his measurements of the wavelengths of the X-ray spectral lines of a number of elements which showed that the ordering of the wavelengths of the X-ray emissions of the elements coincided with the ordering of the el

  • ASSASSINATION OF ARCHDUKE FERDINAND

  • Neils Bohr--proposed Bohr model of the atom

  • BOLSHEVIK REVOLUTION

  • TREATY OF VERSAILLES

  • Louis deBroglie---introduced the wave/particle duality of matter

  • Sir Frederick Banting--isolated insulin

  • Werner Heisenberg--eludicated the uncertainty principle

  • ERwin Schrodinger--developed the equation, which is used today to understand atoms and molecules

  • Philo Farnsworth--TV

  • James Chadwick--propved the existence of neutrons

  • Wallace Carothers--neoprene and nylon

  • BOMBING OF PEARL HARBOR

  • Leo Szilard--nuclear chain reactions and atomic bomb

  • FIRST CELLULAR PHONE

  • Kary Mullis--polymerase chain reaction

  • FIRST INITIAL CONCEPT FOR WORLD WIDE WEB