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History of the atomic theory

  • 400

    B.C. DEMOCRITUS

    B.C. DEMOCRITUS
    Democritus suggested atoms and void
  • BOYLE

    BOYLE
    Boyle figured out the real definition of a element, and helped with the "death" of the old 4 elements
  • LAVOISIER

    LAVOISIER
    Lavoisier discovered how combustion and oxidation works, and overthrew the phlogiston doctrine theory (the image).
  • DALTON

    DALTON
    Dalton found out the real definition of compounds, and suggested that chemical reactions are rearrangements of atoms.
  • FARADAY

    FARADAY
    Faraday suggested that atoms have "forcefields" around them, and the separation of atoms distinguish state of matter
  • MENDELEER

    MENDELEER
    Mandeleer invented the periodic table of elements
  • THOMSON

    THOMSON
    Thomson suggested that the atom is like a positive bun with negative raisins in it
  • RUTHERFORD

    RUTHERFORD
    Rutherford discovered the existence of the nucleus
  • CURIE

    CURIE
    Curie discovered radioactivity
  • PLANCK

    PLANCK
    Opened quantum mechanics
  • BOHR

    BOHR
    Bohr suggested that electrons orbit the nucleus, and reactions depend on the outermost layer
  • B.C. ARISTOTLE

    B.C. ARISTOTLE
    He suggesed that everything is made of 4 elements, and things change because of conflict and harmony.