atomic timeline

  • 400 BCE

    Democritus

    Democritus
    he stated atoms were uniform solid hard indistructible.
  • 347 BCE

    plato

    plato
    he believed that solid forms of matter are composed of invisible elements.
  • 500

    the alchemists

    the alchemists
    the alchemists stated all metals were made of 2 principles sulfur and mercury.
  • Robert Boyle

    Robert Boyle
    Robert believed that everything was composed of very tiny particles.
  • Antone Lavoisier

    Antone Lavoisier
    Antone stated matter is made of atom and were not destroyed or created in a chemical reaction.
  • billiard ball model

    billiard ball model
    an atom is a ball like structure this was made by Dalton.
  • john Dalton

    john Dalton
    john Dalton stated all matter is made of atoms which are invisible.
  • Amedeo Avogadro

    Amedeo Avogadro
    he said equal volume gases at the same temperature and pressure contain same number of molecules.
  • Dimitri Mendeleev

    Dimitri Mendeleev
    he said elements are arranged to the value of atomic mass.
  • Pierre and Marie curie

    Pierre and Marie curie
    they stated powerful rays or energy the polonium and radium gave of particles.
  • Jj Thompson

    Jj Thompson
    he said all atoms contain tiny negatively charged subatomic particles
  • albert einsten

    albert einsten
    he said every liquid is made of molecules.
  • plum pudding model

    plum pudding model
    negative particles are in a sea of positive particles.
  • Robert Millikan

    Robert Millikan
    he said electrons have a fixed measurable charge that does not vary.
  • Ernest Rutherford

    Ernest Rutherford
    Rutherford said atoms are tiny, dense positively, and charged core.
  • Neils Bohr

    Neils Bohr
    Bohr stated some physical quantity's only take discrete values.
  • solar system model

    solar system model
    describes atoms as consisting of a nucleus with a number of electrons orbiting. made by Neils Bohr
  • Herny g.j mosely

    Herny g.j mosely
    Mosely stated the square root of the frequency of the x-ray emitted by an atom is proportional to its atomic number
  • electron cloud model

    electron cloud model
    it represented the area around the atoms nucleus where electrons are found. made by Schrödinger and Heisenberg
  • Erwin Schrödinger

    Erwin Schrödinger
    the behavior of electrons could be explained by treating them mathematically.
  • Wenger Heisenberg

    Wenger Heisenberg
    formulating quantum mechanics in terms of matrices and in discovering the uncertainty principle.
  • James Chadwich

    James Chadwich
    discovered the neutron.