Atomic Theory Timeline

  • 460 BCE

    Democritus

    Democritus
    He was a greek philosopher, suggested that all matter was formed of different types of tiny discrete particles and that the properties of these particles also determined the properties of matter.
  • 330 BCE

    Solar System Model

    Solar System Model
    The solar system model was first created by Heraclids
  • 301 BCE

    Plato

    Plato
    he was a Greek Philosopher, reality is divided into two sections the eternal, real, and perfect ideal of what should be, and the phenomena of what exists in the physical world as we perceive it.
  • Robert Boyle

    Robert Boyle
    He was a funding royal society also a Irish philosopher the volume of a gas decreases with increasing pressure and the famous Boyle's law. A leading scientist and intellectual of his day, he was a great proponent of the experimental method.
  • The alchemists

    The alchemists
    Alchemists developed practical knowledge about matter as well as sophisticated theories about its hidden nature and transformations. They started in 1700
  • John Dalton

    John Dalton
    He was a english metrologist and chemist a pioneer in a developments of modern atomic theory
  • Antone Lavoisier

    Antone Lavoisier
    He determined that oxygen was a key substance in combustion and he gave the element its name
  • Dmitri Mendeleev

    Dmitri Mendeleev
    A russian chemist he also created the periodic table
  • Erwin Schrödinger

    Erwin Schrödinger
    He discovered formulated a wave equation that accurately calculated the energy levels of electrons in atoms.
  • JJ Thompson

    JJ Thompson
    He discovered the eletron, In 1897 Thomson discovered the electron and then went on to propose a model for the structure of the atom. His work also led to the invention of the mass spectrograph.
  • Robert Millikan

    Robert Millikan
    He was an american physicist the famous oil drop experiment
  • Ernest Rutherford

    Ernest Rutherford
    He discovered the atom also discovered alpha and beta rays
  • Albert Eistein

    Albert Eistein
    He won noble prize, also German and a physicist
  • Neils Bohr

    Neils Bohr
    He was a Danish physicist who is genially regarded as one of the foremost physicist
  • Henry G J Mosley

    Henry G J Mosley
    The frequency of x ray radiation has a precise mathematics relationship to an elements atomic number
  • James Chadwich

    James Chadwich
    He proves the existance of neutrons
  • Pierre and Marie Curie

    Pierre and Marie Curie
    They found the existance of the element radium and polonium
  • Plum Pudding Model

    Plum Pudding Model
    The electrons were embedded in a uniform sphere of positive charge, like blueberries stuck into a muffin created by JJ Thomson
  • Eletron Cloud Model

    Eletron Cloud Model
    Erwin Schrödinger and Werner Heisenberg developed the electron cloud model in 1926. The model is a tool for visualizing the most likely electron positions in an atom
  • Werner Heisenberg

    Werner Heisenberg
    He discovered formulated a type of quantum mechanics based on matrices. In 1927 he proposed the uncertainty relation setting limits for how precisely the position and velocity of a particle can be simultaneously determined