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428 BCE
plato
Plato was a Greek philosopher that founded the Platonist school of thought and the Academy, -
322 BCE
Aristotle
Aristotle was a Greek philosopher and polymath during a classical time in ancient greece -
Lavoisier
discovered the role of oxygen in combustion and respiration, proved the law of conservation, reformed the chemical nomenclature, and named hydrogen. -
john dalton
all matter was comprised of indivisible and indestructible atoms with distinct masses and properties, -
newland's law of octaves
if the chemicals are arranged in a certain way, the ones with similar properties occur with the elements that are similar -
Mendeleev's Pd. Table
Mendeleev realized that the physical and chemical properties of elements were related to their atomic mass in a 'periodic' way, -
photoelectric effect
phenomenon in which electrically charged particles are released from or within a material when it absorbs electromagnetic radiation -
Discovery of radioactivity
Henri Becquerel Discovers Radioactivity, French physicist Henri Becquerel opened a drawer and discovered spontaneous radioactivity. -
Discovery of the electron
J.J Thompson discovered the electron in 1897 -
Discovery of the proton
The proton was discovered by Ernest Rutheford in the early 1900's resulted in a nuclear reaction which led to the first 'splitting' of the atom, where he discovered protons -
Plum pudding model
a historical scientific model of the atom. -
Rutherford's gold foil expiriment
A piece of gold foil was hit with particles, which have a positive charge. Most alpha particles went right through. This showed that the gold atoms were mostly empty space. -
Charge of the electron
It carries a negative charge of 1.602176634 × 10−19 coulomb, which is considered the basic unit of electric charge. -
Borh's planetary model
the electrons travel around the nucleus of an atom in orbits -
Mosley's atomic numbers
, he discovered a systematic relation between wave- length and atomic number 43, 61, and 75 (atomic numbers) -
Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle
we cannot know both the position and speed of a particle, such as a photon or electron, with perfect accuracy -
Discovery of the Nuetron
In May 1932 James Chadwick announced that the core also contained a new uncharged particle, which he called the neutron. Chadwick was born in1891 in Manchester, England -
Robert millikan
the elementary charge of an electron using the oil-drop experiment.