DEMOCRITUS (born in 470dc)

ARISTOTLE (born in 384dc)

Proposed the existence of
an
Rejected the idea of the
atom
atom
Word comes from the Greek
word
Said
matter could be cut
atomis which means not to
cut
continually

-Thomson continued
to view atom as a
solid mass.

Maria
Faura

Model of the atom:

1st period

Negatively
charged
electrons
embedded
in a ball of
positive
charge.

Daltons theory proposed

that atoms:
ATOMIC
MODELS

Their observations get

the tree laws.
Law of
Conservation of
Mass
Law of Definite
Proportions
Law of Multiple
Proportions

Idea of the atom rejected for Aristotle. Most

people sized with Aristotle and the believe of
atom was lost.

Greek filosofers

18th
Believe Atoms
com
century
back

SCIENTIFIC
EXPERIMEN
TS

Are building blocks of

matter
Are indivisible
Atoms of same
elements are
identical
Atoms of different
elements are
different.
They unite in small
whole number ratio
to form compounds.

180
3

1897
John
Dalton

J.J.
Thomson

Aristotle
believed that it
Notice certain
-He was
would ever be a
credited
characteristic are
with the
particle of
shared by all chemical
discovery of
matter that
compounds.
electron: a
could be
blow to
Democritus believed that
Daltons
substances can be cut in
indivisible
smaller and smaller pieces
atom.
eventually we have the
HISTORY OF ATOMIC THEORY AND
smallest possible peace that
still behave like the original
MODELING TIMELINE

Rutherfords theory
proposed that
atoms:
most of the
atom is empty
space
dense,
positively
charged core
called it the
Planetary Model
negative
electrons
orbiting the
positively

1909
Lord Rutherford

Rutherfords Gold-foil
experiment.
-aimed alpha particles
at gold foil
-most passed through
Results:
A few particles were
deflected
Some particles even
bounced back