History of The Atom
History of The Atom
History of The Atom
Aaron London
Leucippus
Within the first century B.C. 1. Leucippus was the first philosopher to realize how
everything was structured from small particles. They called it atomism, these tiny
building blocks are indivisible and imperishable.
Democritus
In 460 B.C., Democritus claimed everything that took up any space was made of a
so called atom. The atom was indivisible and unseeable. He also believe these
“atoms” were indestructible.
John Dalton
In 1803, dalton proposed that all matter is made of atoms. He put together that all
elements contain different size and mass. Just as an atom from the same element
is identical to one another.
Maxwell Planck
In 1858, Max came up with the conclusion that atoms contain energy. He was a
German theoretical physicist who discovered energy quanta. He actually won the
Nobel prize in 1918 for Physics.
J.J. Thompson
In 1897, he developed the Atomic theory. Experimenting with a tube, he realized
that cathode rays held a negative charge. In 1909, he was in fact disproved by
Geiger’s and Marsden’s gold foil experiment.
Albert Einstein
In 1905, Einstein's work advanced the philosophy of science. He is the father,
known from the theory of relativity. He has indeed been the dude to understand
the way gravity and light works.
R. Millikan
In 1908, Millikan threw together an oil dropper experiment. Thomson's charge to
mass ratio of the electron was discovered previously by J. J. Thompson. The
experiment revealed the measure of the charge capacity in a single electron.
Rutherford
In 1911, Rutherford put together a gold foil experiment. He proved that the nucleus
of an atom is very very tiny but yet the heaviest part. He was the first to present
the unseen structure of an atom.
Louis De Broglie
In 1924, Louis De Broglie was the man who discovered that all matter have wave
properties. His quantum theory won him the nobel prize in 1929. The nature of
electrons do in fact hold positive and negative wave currents.
W. Heisenberg
In 1925, Heisenberg was only 23 years old when he came across his discovery.
He found allotropic forms of Hydrogen. Because of this he also won the Nobel
prize for Physics in 1932
E. Schrodinger
In 1926, Schrodinger didn't necessarily use experimentation to find electron
movements. Instead he used the importance of mathematics to find his
conclusion. He created his own wave equation and studied electron movement
throughout a cloud structure.
J. Chadwick
In 1932, Chad bombarded Beryllium with alpha particles giving off an energetic
stream. This gave off much radiation. Doing this experiment, he tried tracking
Rutherford's “proton - electron pair”, but yet discovered the neutron itself.