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101
Miletus- 600 BC
Thought everything was made of water -
101
Democritus- 400 BC
Thought matter couldnt be divided into smaller pieces forever and came up with the atom -
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Aristotle- 400 BC
Believed him instead of Democritus but Democritus was right; -
Isaac Newton- 1670
gravity, laws of motion, light spectrum -
John Dalton- 1807
atoms are indivisible and indestructible all atoms of an element are identical atoms are different elements are different atoms are different elements combine in simple whole numbers to form compounds atoms cannot be created or destroyed -
Antoine Henri Becquerel- 1896
thought the atom was solid -
JJ Thompson- 1897
discovered the electron -
Robert Milikan- 1909
mass and charge of electron -
Rutherford- 1911
discovered the nucleus and proton -
Niels Bohr-1913
discovered model of atom -
Francis Aston-1919
discovered isotopes -
Erwin Schrodinger-1926
schrodinger model -
James Chadwick- 1932
approved nucleus existed