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Atomic Timeline

Published on Nov 18, 2015

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PRESENTATION OUTLINE

Democritus

  • Born:460 BC. Died: 370 BC
  • Was an Ancient Greek Philosopher born in Abdera, Thrace, Greece.
  • Formulated an Atomic Theory for the universe.

Aristole

  • Born: 384 BC. Died: 322 BC.
  • Was a Greek Philosopher and Polymath.
  • Is one of the most important founding figures in Western Philosophy.

Antoine Lavoisier

  • Born: August 26th, 1743. Died: May 8th, 1794.
  • Found the two elements that makeup water.
  • He had named one oxygen (Greek for becoming sharp) because of the acid in it.

John Dalton

  • Born: September 6th, 1766. Died: July 27th, 1844.
  • Developed the Atomic Theory in the 1800's.
  • Tried to calculate the Atomic weight of compunds.
  • Also tried to come up with the atomic structures of atoms.

Henri Becquerel

  • Born: December 18th, 1852. Died: August 25th, 1908.
  • Discovered Uranium produced x-ray radiation
  • Won the 1903 Nobel Prize in Physics.

J.J. Thomson

  • Born: December 18th, 1856. Died: August 30th, 1940.
  • Discovered the electron using cathode-ray tube.
  • Thought the Atoms were a sphere of positive force with electrons around it.

Max Planck

  • Born: April 23rd, 1858. Died: October 4th, 1947.
  • Founder of the Quatum Theory.
  • Made a profound discovery in Modern Physics.

Marie and Pierre Curie

  • Marie, was Born: November 7th, 1867. Marie, Died: July 4th 1934
  • Pierre, was Born: May 15th, 1859. Pierre, Died: April 19th, 1906.
  • They both, were a married couple, after their marriage, they continued to work together in science.
  • They discovered Polonium and Radium.

Robert Millikan

  • Born: March 22nd, 1866. Died: December 19th, 1953.
  • Was responsible for finding the charge of a single electron.
  • Proved that Subatomic Particles do exist.

Ernest Rutherford

  • Born: August 30th, 1871. Died: October 19th, 1937.
  • Discovered the Nucleus.
  • Was a student of J.J. Thomson.

Niels Bohr

  • Born: October 7th, 1885. Died: November 18th, 1962.
  • Proposed a new atom model that would allow the electrons to be outside the nucleus and orbit around the nucleus.
  • His model is known as the Bohr Model.

Henry Moseley

  • Born: November 23rd, 1887. Died: August 10th, 1915.
  • Found the relationship between wavelengths, x-rays produced, and the atomic number of a metal.
  • His founding became known as Moseley's Law.

EWRIN SCHRODINGER

  • Born: August 12th, 1887. Died: January 4th, 1961.
  • Came up with the equation for quantum wave mechanics.
  • Tried to see electrons in packets that moved certain ways.

Werner Heisenberg

  • Born: August 12th, 1887. Died: January 4th, 1961.
  • Came up with the uncertainly priciple.
  • Was a German Theoretical physicist.

James Chadwick

  • Born: October 20th, 1891. Died: July 24th, 1974.
  • Proved the existence of neutrons.
  • Changed the way that the atom was viewed.