History of The Model of an Atom

  • 400 BCE

    Democritus

    Democritus believed that all things on earth were made of atomic atoms
  • 330 BCE

    Aristotle

    Aristotle believed that all things were made of the four elements fire, water, wind, and earth instead of the belief in atoms
  • 1492

    Columbus arrives in America

  • Robert Boyle

    Creator of Boyles law. Boyles law describes inversely proportional relationships
  • American revolution

  • James Dalton

    James daltons atomic theory stated that all elements were made of extremely small particles called atoms
  • Dmitri Mendeleev

    Created the first periodic table
  • American civil war

  • J. J. Thomson

    Thomson is credited with discovering the subatomic particle
  • Niels Bohr

    In 1913 Niels Bohr proposed a theory of the working of a hydrogen atom
  • World war 1

  • Hans Geiger

    Inventor of the Geiger counter that led to the discovery of the atomic nucleus
  • Robert Milikan

    Awarded a noble for measuring the electric charge and his work with the photoelectric effect
  • James Chadwick

    Discovery of the neutron
  • World war 2

  • The bomb dropping in Hiroshima

  • Present Day