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Democritus

Published on Nov 18, 2015

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Democritus

  • He used philosophy, not science.
  • Atoms were indivisible and indestructible.
  • Everything is made up of atoms.   

John Dalton

  • Saw atoms as tiny, indestructible particles. 
  • Atoms had no internal structure.
  • All matter are made of atoms.
  • Compounds are of 2 atoms.
  • A chemical reaction is a rearrangement of atoms. 

J.J. Thomson

  • He discovered the electron.
  • Believe electrons had a positive charged in atoms. 
  • His work showed that atoms were made up of small particles.
  • He proved that his theory using the cathode ray tube. 

Ernest Rutherford

  • Atom has a small, dense, positively charged nucleus. 
  • Electrons move around  the nucleus.
  • Atoms made up of a central charge.
  • His model showed a energic charge in the atoms.

Neils Bohr

  • Electrons moves in a circular orbit.
  • Found calculation for positive energy levels.
  • Discovered radioactivity of electrons. 
  • Discovered hydrogen atoms base.

Erwin schrodinger

  • Develops mathematical equations to describe motion of electrons.
  • His work lead to the electron of cloud model.
  • Electrons have certain orbit around nucleus.
  • Predicts the odds of the location of the electrions. 

James chadwick

  • Discovered the neutron. 
  • Discovered that the beam was not deflected by either fields.
  • Neutrons were found to have the same mass as protons.
  • The nucleus on same energy levels as the electrons.