Evolution of atomic model

By Cambel

  • Issac Newton

    Set a mechanical universe with small solid masses in motion

  • John Dalton

    "atomic theory" with spherical solid atoms based upon measurable properties of mass

  • Sir William Crooke

    constructed a cathode ray tube , which later became the basis for television

  • Wilhelm Rontgen

    discovered that certain chemicals glowed when exposed to cathode rays

  • JJ Thomson

    discovered the electron

  • Albert Einstein

    creates special and general theories of relativity, and hypothesizes about the particle natural light.

  • Ernest Rutherford

    developed the theory for the structure of the atom

  • Neils Bohr

    Developed the Bohr atomic model

  • James Chadwick

    discovers the neutron component of the atomic nucleus

  • Otto Hahn and Lise Meitner

    discovered nuclear fission