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John Dalton
Dalton's fascination with weather and the atmosphere led to his research in the nature of gaseswhich in turn became the foundation on which he built his atomic theroy. -
Joesph John Thomson
Thomson discovered the electron in series of experiments designed to study the natureof electric discharge in a high vacuum cathode-ray tube, an area being investigated by numerous sciencetist at the time. It took from 1897-1940. -
Ernest Rutherford
In 1907, he attempted an experiment to examine a structure o an atom. -
Neils Bohr
The Nobel Prize in physics in 1922 was awarded to Neils Bohr for his services in investigation of the structure of atoms and of radation emanating from them