History of an Atom

  • 440 BCE

    Democritus

    He was a greek socratic philosopher who came up with the atomic theory.
  • Antoine Lavoisier

    He was a chemist known for his discovery of the role oxygen has in combustion
  • John Dalton

    English chemist, physicist, and meteorologist. He is known for proposing the modern atomic theory, and for his research into colour blindness.
  • Dmitri Mendeleev

    He is known for formulating the periodic law and created the early version of the periodic table.
  • Eugene Goldstein

    German physicist. He was an early investigator of discharge tubes, the discoverer of anode rays, and is sometimes credited with the discovery of the proton.
  • Henry Moseley

    An english physicist, he helped in justification from physical laws of the previous empirical and chemical of the atomic number.
  • J.J. Thomson

    An english physicist who was credited with the identification of the electron.
  • Ernest Rutherford

    A british physicist who is the father of nuclear physics
  • Niels Bohr

    Danish physicist who made foundational contributions to understanding atomic structure and quantum theory.
  • Max Planck

    German theoretical physicist who discovered the energy quanta
  • Robert Millikan

    American experimental physicist honored with the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1923 for the measurement of the elementary electric charge
  • Werner Heisenberg

    German theoretical physicist and one of the key pioneers of quantum mechanics.
  • Erwin Schrodinger

    Austrian physicist who developed a number of fundamental results in the field of quantum theory, which formed the basis of wave mechanics.