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John Dalton
John Dalton preformed the first expiriment testing the atom theory. -
J.J. Thompson
Discovered the electron and construted a model for the atom -
Max Planck
Figured out that if you vibrate atoms strong enough (such as when you heat it up) you can measure the objects in units. -
Ernest Rutherford
Shot Alpha Rays at Atoms to see the effect. -
Niels Bohr
Created theory stating that electrons did not spiral in ward, but simply jumped between possible planes -
Ernest Rutherford
Constructed an atom model that was close to an acurate representation of one -
Wolfgang Pauli
Guessed that electrons spin as they orbit around the nucleus -
Louis de Broglie
Predicted that atom particals can act as waves. (He was later proven correct) -
Paul Dirac
Constructed equations that posed a theory for Anti-Matter. -
James Chadwick
Discovered the Neutron -
Werner Heisenberg
Found that charged photons bounce light beams back and forth between them. -
Anti-Matter
Physicsts discovered the "anti-proton" and the "anti-neutron" thu proving antimatter true -
Murray Gell-Mann and Yuval Ne'man
Created the Eightfold method of classification