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460 BCE
democritus
Democritus was an Ancient Greek pre-Socratic philosopher from Abdera, primarily remembered today for his formulation of an atomic theory of the universe. None of his work has survived. -
429 BCE
plato
he was a ancient Greek philosopher -
384 BCE
airistotle
he is known for rejecting platos theory -
the alchemists
The alchemists began examining the atomic theory about two centuries after the death of Aristotle -
robert boyle
he was a Irish natural philosopher, chemist, physicist, alchemist and inventor. -
john dalton
he made atomic models. -
mendeleev's pd table
Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleev was a Russian chemist and inventor. He is best known for formulating the Periodic Law and creating a version of the periodic table of elements. -
newlands law of octaves
chemicals are arranged by weight. -
robert millikan
Robert Andrews Millikan was an American experimental physicist who won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1923 for the measurement of the elementary electric charge and for his work on the photoelectric effect. Millikan graduated from Oberlin College in 1891 and obtained his doctorate at Columbia University in 1895 -
photoelectric effect
how light reacts another electrical discharge -
discovery of radioactivity
Henri Becquerel is who discovered radioactivity -
plancks quantum theory
Different atoms and molecules can emit or absorb energy in discrete quantities only. -
plum pudding model
electrons in uniform spheres -
Ruthford's gold foil experiment
he found out atoms are Mosty empty space. -
bohr's planetary model
a model of how electrons orbit the nucleus. -
mosley atomic numbers
1914 Moseley published a paper in which he concluded that the atomic number is the number of positive charges in the atomic nucleus. He also stated that there were three unknown elements, -
discovery of the proton
Ernest Rutherford discovered the proton. -
schrodinger equation
Erwin Schrödinger formulated a wave equation that accurately calculated the energy levels of electrons in atoms -
heisenberg uncertainty principle
we don't know the speed of a partial like a proton or an electron. -
discovery of the neutron
James Chadwick discovered neutrons.