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John Dalton
Suggested all matter was made of tiny spheres and called them atoms. -
Joseph John Thompson
found that atoms could have a smaller negative particle he called an electron -
Joseph John Thompson
Thompson develops the idea that an atom was made up of electrons scattered within an elastic sphere surrounded by a soup of positive charge -
Ernest Rutherford
Created the current model of the atom -
Democratus's model
A solid model that cannot be seperated into any smaller pieces. The smallest piece of possible matter
