Science Atomic Theory

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  • Plato
    440 BCE

    Plato

    said that the stars, planets, and the sun are composed of Atoms of ether.
  • Democritus
    400 BCE

    Democritus

    said all materials were made of atomos and that each material had its own type of atomos and it would have the same properties as other atomos of its type.
  • Robert Boyle

    Robert Boyle

    proposed that elements are composed of corpuscles of various types and sizes that separate into groups that make different chemical substances.
  • Antoine Lavoisier

    Antoine Lavoisier

    made the law of conservation of matter and begun the conversation of what an atom is.
  • The Alchemists

    The Alchemists

    accidently started the present day periodic table by trying to make common metals like lead into gold.
  • John Dalton

    John Dalton

    proposed all matter is composed of atoms, invisible and indestructible building blocks.
  • Billard Ball Model

    Billard Ball Model

    proposed by John Dalton. Said the atom was a hard sphere and had all its components inside of the sphere.
  • Amadeo Avogadro

    Amadeo Avogadro

    said that equal volumes of gas contain equal numbers of molecules and elementry gases are composed of 2 atoms.
  • Dmitri Mendeleev

    Dmitri Mendeleev

    said when all chemical elements are arranged by atomic weight then it makes a reoccurring pattern.
  • JJ Thomson

    JJ Thomson

    said all atoms contain electrons which were negatively charged. proposed the plum pudding model.
  • Pierre and Marie Curie

    Pierre and Marie Curie

    found strongly radioactive elements such as, polonium and radium.
  • Plum Pudding Model

    Plum Pudding Model

    proposed by JJ Thomson. said that a ball of positive charge would attract the electrons and the electrons would be like tiny dots in the positive charge.
  • Albert Einstein

    Albert Einstein

    mathematically proved the existence of atoms.
  • Ernest Rutherford

    Ernest Rutherford

    said the atom is mostly empty space.
  • Niels Bohr

    Niels Bohr

    proposed the theory for the billiard ball structure of the atom.
  • Solar System Model

    Solar System Model

    proposed by Niels Bohr. There are rings of electrons around a nucleus just like a planet and its moons.
  • Robert Millikan

    Robert Millikan

    found out about the electron's properties and its mass.
  • Henry G. J. Mosely

    Henry G. J. Mosely

    said the atomic number is the number of positive charges in the atomic nucleus.
  • Erwin Schrodinger

    Erwin Schrodinger

    made an equation that showed the energy level of certain atoms.
  • Electron Cloud Model

    Electron Cloud Model

    proposed by Erwin Schrodinger and is the modern version of the atom. said that the nucleus of the atom was surrounded by a cloud of electrons.
  • Werner Heisenberg

    Werner Heisenberg

    proposed the uncertainty principle. Particles are moving constantly in random motion and we cannot predict its path.
  • James Chadwick

    James Chadwick

    said atoms also have neutrons not just electrons and protons.