Chemistry

  • 776 BCE

    First Olympics

    First Olympics
    Many countries compete against one another in sporting events
  • 445 BCE

    Democritus

    Democritus
    Said everything is composed of atoms
  • 335

    Aristotle

    Aristotle
    Stated that there was no such thing as atoms
  • Antonie Lavosier

    Antonie Lavosier
    Created the law of conservation of mass
  • joseph Proust

    joseph Proust
    He first published his Law of Definite Proportions (or Law of Constant Composition) in 1794
  • John Dalton

    John Dalton
    States that all matter is made of atoms
  • Amadeo Avagadro

    Amadeo Avagadro
    made a statement that states that at the same temperature and pressure, equal volumes of gases contain the same number of molecules
  • Civil war

    The North fought the south over slavery
  • First telephone

    First telephone
    Alexader grahmbell created the first telephone
  • William Crookes

    William Crookes
    British chemist and physicist noted for his discovery of the element thallium
  • Henri Becquerel

    Henri Becquerel
    discovered radioactivity, while expirementing
  • Madame Curie

    Madame Curie
    discovered radium and polonium.
  • J.J. Thomson

    J.J. Thomson
    earliest theoretical description of the inner structure of atoms
  • First World series

    First World series
    The first Baseball world series was played and featured players such as cy young
  • Albert Einstein

    Albert Einstein
    most famous for his theory of relativity amoung many other scientific discoveries
  • Ernest Rutherford

    Ernest Rutherford
    Did experiment that showed atoms have a tiny, heavy nucleus
  • Robert Millikan

    Robert Millikan
    oil drop experiment helped to quantify the charge of an electron, which contributed greatly to our understanding of the structure of the atom and atomic theory
  • Henry Moseley

    Henry Moseley
    reorganized the periodic table by the amount of protons they have
  • Niels Bohr

    Niels Bohr
    stated that in the hydrogen atom energy is transferred only in certain well defined quantities
  • Max Planck

    Max Planck
    made the quantum theory which helped people understand atoms and how they worked
  • World War One

    The biggest war of its time and lasted 4 years resulting in many deaths
  • Werner Heisenberg

    Werner Heisenberg
    Created matrix mechanics, a version of quantum mechanics
  • Erwin Schrodinger

    Erwin Schrodinger
    used mathematical equations to describe the likelihood of finding an electron in a certain position.
  • Louis deBroglie

    Louis deBroglie
    studied the wavelenghts of electrons
  • James Chadwick

    James Chadwick
    proved the existence of neutrons
  • World war Two

    Major war that started off by hitlers actions and resulted in many deaths
  • JFK assaination

    President Kennedy was shot and killed in dallas texas
  • First Superbowl

    First Superbowl
    The packers beat the chiefs in the first Superbowl
  • Civil rights movement

    The blacks fought for equality and got it
  • Vietnam war

    Vietnam war
    The Americans fought in a war and went over to Vietnam