The History Of an Atom

  • 400 BCE

    Democritus

    Introduced the idea of the atom as the basic building block of matter.
  • 410

    The Battle of Cyzicus

    The Battle of Cyzicus in 410 BCE. where Alcioiades and the Athenians anbushed or outmaneuvered the Poloponnesian fleet, destroying ships and killing its admiral
  • treaty with France and Quasi war

    On July 7, 1798, congress rescinded treaties with France and the Quasi war begins
  • John Dalton

    All matter was comprised of individuals and indestructible atoms with distinct masses and properties. The combination of which determines the physical nature of their constituent elements. " Modern theory of the atom.
    "Marble model"
  • Michael Faraday

    Discovered that atoms have an electrical component. He discovered this when studying the properties an reactions of electrolysis
  • JJ Thomson

    Experimented with cathode ray tubes showed that al atoms contained tiny negatively charged subatomic particles or elements.
    "Plum pudding model"
  • Eugen Goldstein

    discovered evidence for the existence of this positively charged particle
  • The wounded Knee Massacre

    On December 29 1890, The Wounded Knee Massacre took place in South Dakota when U.S calvary troopers fired on Lakota people who had gathered
  • Robert Peary Conquest to the north pole

    Robert Peary began his Conquest to the North Pole on April 6, 1909
  • Robert Millikan

    Succeeded in precisely determining the magnitude of the electron change
  • Ernest Rutherford

    The Atom is mostly empty space, with nearly all of its mass concentrated in a tiny central nucleus
    "Nuclear model" or "Jimmy Neutron model"
  • Neils Bohr

    A model of the atom in which the electron was able to occupy only certain orbits around the nucleus. "Solar system" model
  • Ninetieth amendment

    On August 18 the ninetieth amendment was passed giving women the right to vote.
  • Werner Heisenberg

    He contributed to atomic theory by formulating quantum mechanics in terms of matices and in discovering the uncertainty principle.
  • Edwin Schrödinger

    a powered model of the atom was developed in 1926.
    "Electron cloud model"
  • The Great Mississippi Flood

    The great Mississippi flood of 1927 strikes 700,000 people in the greatest natural disaster in American history through this time
  • James Chadwick

    He proved the existence of neutrons-elementary particles devoid of any electrical charge. "electron cloud model with neutrons added"