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500 BCE
Democritus
-He created the atomic theory of the universe
-father of modern science -
John Dalton
-introduced atomic theory to chemistry -
Dmitri Mendeleev
-founder of the periodic table
-predicted the properties of 8 elements that were not founded yet -
Eugene Goldstein
-the discoverer of anode rays
-sometimes credited of the discovery of the proton -
J.J Thomson
-discovered and identified the electron
-discovered the first subatomic particle -
Max Planck
-discovered the energy quanta
-that won him the noble prize -
Robert Millikan
-measured the elementary electronic charge
-worked on the photoelectric effect -
Ernest Rutherford
-discovered the concept of radioactive half-life
-father of nuclear physics -
niels bohr
-made contribution to atomic structure and quantum theory
-developed the bohr model of the atom -
Erwin Schrodinger
-discovered numbers of fundamental results in the field of quantum theory
-formulated wave equation -
James Chadwick
-discovered the neutron
-inspired research about the atomic bomb -
Werner Heisenberg
-one of the key people for the quantum mechanics
-know for the Heisenberg uncertainty principle
