atomic time line

  • 500 BCE

    plato

    plato
    Plato introduced the atomic theory in which ideal geometric forms serve as atoms
  • 460 BCE

    democritus

    democritus
    Greak philosopher and hypothesized the atom
  • 1400

    the alchemists

    the alchemists
    they were some of the first people to think of atoms. and believed that you could make all materials were made from mercury and sulfur.
  • Robert Boyle

    Robert  Boyle
    he said that water was made of Tiney particles called corpuscle or atoms as we know them today
  • Amedeo Avogadro

    Amedeo Avogadro
    In 1811, he proposed Avogadro's law, which states that equal volumes of gases at equal temperature and pressure contain the same number of particles.
  • Antone Lavoisier

    Antone Lavoisier
    French chemist he contributed to the creation of the atomic model.
  • john Dalton

    john Dalton
    he was a English physicist how proposed the modern-day atomic theory.
  • billiard ball model

    billiard ball model
    was a model of an atom with a ball like shape.
  • Dmitri Mendeleev

    Dmitri Mendeleev
    Dmitri Mendeleev is known for his discovery of the periodic law, which states that when elements are arranged in order of increasing atomic weight
  • Ernes Rutherfordt

    Ernes Rutherfordt
    he discovered that there was a dense nucleus with electrons suronding.
  • albert einstein

    albert einstein
    a germen physicist how mathematically proved the existence of atoms.
  • JJ Thompson

    JJ Thompson
    the discovery of the electron
  • solar system model

    solar system model
    solar system model is a model of an atom that was called that because it made it loke like the electrons are orbiting the nucleus.
  • Pierre and Marie curie

    Pierre and Marie curie
    they hypothesized that radiation practical's brake down and destroy atoms.
  • plum pudding model

    plum pudding model
    was a model of an atom This model suggested that the atom was a uniform, positively charged sphere with negatively charged electrons inside of the sphere.
  • henry G.J. Mosely

    henry G.J. Mosely
    he discovered that Propeties of an element are determined by their number not by their Wate.
  • Erwin Schrodinger

    He used mathematical equations to describe the probability of finding an electron in a certain position, rather than fixed orbits
  • electron cloud model

    electron cloud model
    is a model of an atom where the electrons are surrounding the nucleus of the atom in something that looks like a cloud.
  • Niels Bohr

    Niels Bohr
    he was a Danish physicist he made important contributions to the atomic structure.
  • Robert Millikan

    Robert Millikan
    he counted the value of the elementary charge.
  • james chadwich

    james chadwich
    he discovered the neutron