ATOMIC STRUCTURE AND THEORY PROJECT.

JOHN DALTON

• 6 September 1766 - 27 July 1844
• English chemist
• Atoms cannot be created or destroyed
• All matter consists of indivisible particles called atoms

JJ. THOMSON

• 18 December 1856 - 30 August 1940
• Discovered that the fundamental unit was 1000 times smaller than an atom
• The natural radioactivity of potassium

Earl Rutherford

• 30 August 1871- 21 December 1991
• Attended government schools
• Created the planetary model
• Known as the father of nuclear science

NEILS BOHR

• 7 October 1885 - 18 November 1962
• Won a nobel peace price for his work with atoms
• Lecturer at Copenhagen university in 1913

IRENE CURIE

• 12 September 1897 - 17 March 1956
• Discovered the protons and neutrons
• Studied the nuclei of an atom
• French scientist

ROBERT MILKAN

• 22 March 1868 - 19 December 1953
• Contriversal beliefs towards Einstein
• Measured the charge of a single electron