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Thales of Miletus 600 BC
Believed everything was made of water -
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Democritus 400BC
Believed that matter could be divided into smaller and smaller pieces until the smallest piece was reached, the atom. First think of the atom -
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Aristotle 400 BC
Believed that everything was made of water, fire, earth, or air.
His ideas were more accepted than Democritus' -
Isaac Newton
Believed that Democritus' ideas were correct -
John Dalton
performed expirements
Theory of matter
atoms are indivisible and indestructible
atoms of the same element are identical
different elelments have different atoms
different elements combine to make compounds
atoms cannot be created or destroyed -
Antoine Becquerel
Discovered radioactivity
4 expirements "uranium expirements" -
JJ Thomson
Discoverd the electron
Cathode ray tube expirement
Plum pudding model -
Robert Milikan
Find charge and mass of electron
oil drop expirement -
Rutherford
Discovered nucleus and protons
Gold foil expirement -
Niels Bohr
Discovered electrons path
Bohr Model -
Francis Aston
Discovered isotopes
mass spectograph -
Erwin Shrodinger
Model predicted electron's position
electron cloud -
James Chadwick
Discovered the neutron