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democritus

Published on Nov 23, 2015

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democritus

  • Used philosophy, not science
  • Atoms were indivisible & indestructible
  • Everything is made up of atoms

john dalton

  • All matter is made of atoms.
  • Atoms were indivisible and indestructible
  • All atoms of a given element are identical in mass and properties
  • A compound is formed by a combination of two or more atoms
  • A chemical reaction is a rearrangement of atoms

J.J. Thomson

  • the existence of electrons in an atom
  • atoms are not indivisible and can be seen
  • atoms were spherical and had a postive charge

Ernest Rutherford

  • has a small, dense, positively charged nucleus
  • electrons move around the nucleus
  • the atom was mostly empty space

neils bohr

  • the electrons move around the nucleus
  • atom is small
  • has a postively charged nucleus

erwin schrodinger

  • only certain electrons orbit around the nucleus
  • The orbit nearest the nucleus has an energy of E1, the next orbit E2, etc.
  • energy is absorbed when going higher on the orbit and lower

james chadwick

  • he discovered the neutron in an atom
  • established the atomic number for atoms