Atomic Timeline

  • 455 BCE

    Plato

    Plato
    Plato Introduced the atomic theory in which ideals geometric forms serve as atoms
  • 450 BCE

    Democritus

    Democritus
    Natural Laws, nothing is actually something, light of stars
  • 700

    The Alchemists

    The Alchemists
    Breaking down the chemical compositon of the 4 basic elements of their time, Fire, earth, wind, and water.
  • Robert Boyle

    Robert Boyle
    Developed the atomic theory that matter is made up up of tiny particles that he called corpuscles
  • Antone Lavoisier

    Antone Lavoisier
    Mass is not destroyed in chemical reactions and named oxygen
  • John Dalton

    John Dalton
    First evidential experiment evidence of the existence of matter
  • Amedeo Avogadro

    Amedeo Avogadro
    Research on gas, volume, pressure and tempature
  • Dmitri Mendeleev

    Dmitri Mendeleev
    He created the periodic Table
  • Robert Millikan

    Robert Millikan
    Measured the change of the electrons using his famous oil drop.
  • JJ Thompson

    JJ Thompson
    Discovery of the Electron using the cathode
  • Pierre and Marie Curie

    Pierre and Marie Curie
    Discovered polonium and radium
  • Albert Einstein

    Albert Einstein
    Mathematically proved the existence of atoms
  • Ernest Rutherford

    Ernest Rutherford
    He discovered the nucleus, set forth the laws of radioactive decay, and identified alpha particles as helium nuclei.
  • Plum Pudding Model

    Plum Pudding Model
    Made by JJ thomson and it was a scientific model of the atom
  • Henry G.J. Mosely

    Henry G.J. Mosely
    Henry Mosley discovered a systematic relation between wavelength and atomic number.
  • Solar system Model

    Solar system Model
    A mathematical model of the Sun that describes its structure, composition, energy production, and evolution. And was made by Bohr
  • Electron Cloud model

    Electron Cloud model
    The electron cloud model is a model of an atom that shows the most probable position of electrons
  • Erwin Schrodinger

    Erwin Schrodinger
    He discovered Wave mechanics of electrons in an atom
  • James Chadwich

    James Chadwich
    He is responsible of the discovery of the neutron
  • Neils Bohr

    Neils Bohr
    Quantum concept energy is a system to distain discrete value