400

BC
Democritus
-Atoms cannot be
created or destroyed
-Smallest piece of
matter
- Called them
atomos.

300 BC
Aristotle
-Four main elements
that make up atoms:
Earth, fire, water,
air.
- Did not agree with
Democritus.

1808
John Dalton
-Elements are
composed of atoms
& join to make new
substances.
-All atoms of one
element are
identical.
- Supported
Democritus theories.

1860
Lord Kelvin
-Proposed that
atoms were shaped
like vortexes.
-Shaped with
twisting and looping
knots.
-later disproven

1897
JJ Thomson
-Discovered
electrons
-positive sphere
with negative
electrons scattered.
-plum pudding
model.

1909
Ernest Rutherford
-Gold Foil
Experiment
-Discovered the
nucleus of an atom.

1912
Niels Bohr
- Planetary model of
atom.
- electrons travel in
energy levels
- more functional
model that led to
chemical property
predictions.

1927
Werner Heisenberg
-uncertainty
principle
-impossible to
determine electron
locations.
-Electron cloud
model / quantum
mechanical model

1932
James Chadwick
- student of
Rutherford.
- Discovered the
neutron in the
nucleus to balance
out protons.
-Helped with the
development of the
nuclear model.