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250
Thales-620 BC
First person to publicly wonder what tha world around him was made of -
300
Democritus-440 BC
First person to come up with the atomic theory -
350
Aristotle-340 BC
Instead of atoms,thought of world as made up of four elements -
Isaac Newton
contributed to the atomic theory -
John Dalton
First person to come up with Atomism and Dalton's Atomic Theory. -
Henri Baquerel
Discovered Radioactivity -
J.J Thomson
discovered the electron and updated the model of the atom -
Robert Andrews Milliken
found charge of a single electron -
Ernest Rutherford
discovered the proton and nucleus and updated the atomic model -
Niels Bohr
discovered electrons have a certain orbit they follow -
Francis Aston
discovered the mass spectograph and 212 isotopes -
Erwin Shrodinger
used math equation to find the probabilty an electron would be in a certain position -
James Chadwick
discovered the neutron