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Famous scientists and atomic structure
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John Dalton's Discovery
John Dalton was an English chemist, physicist and meteorologist. He created his own atomic theory which surrounded the ideas of 1. 1.Elements are made of extremely small particles called atoms
2.Atoms of the same element are identical in mass, size etc.
3.Atoms cannot be divided or destroyed -
JJ Thomson's Discovery
Thomson was an English physicist that discovered the electron and believed that an atom consists of a shpere of postive charge with negatively charged electrons embedded in it. -
Ernest Rutherford's Discovery
Ernest Rutherford was a New Zealand born British physicist who was responsible for a remarkable series of discoveries revolving around nuclear physics. He hypothesized the structure of the atom. -
Niels Bohr's Discovery
NIels Bohr was a Danish physicist who made contributions to understanding atomic structure and the quantum theory. He received a Nobel Prize in Physics in 1922 for his outstanding work. His major contribution, in 1913, was his theory on the hydrogen atom involving quantum theory. -
Sir James Chadwick's Discovery
Sir James Chadwick was an English physicist that was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for his discovery of the Neutron in 1932.
