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Timeline of Atomic Structure

The document outlines the historical timeline of atomic structure, detailing contributions from key figures such as Democritus, Aristotle, Dalton, Thomson, Rutherford, Bohr, Schrodinger, Millikan, Chadwick, and Goldstein. Each scientist's theories and models are summarized, highlighting their positive and negative aspects. The timeline illustrates the evolution of atomic theory from early concepts to modern understandings of atomic structure.

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Timeline of Atomic Structure

The document outlines the historical timeline of atomic structure, detailing contributions from key figures such as Democritus, Aristotle, Dalton, Thomson, Rutherford, Bohr, Schrodinger, Millikan, Chadwick, and Goldstein. Each scientist's theories and models are summarized, highlighting their positive and negative aspects. The timeline illustrates the evolution of atomic theory from early concepts to modern understandings of atomic structure.

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Timeline

of atomic
structure
By Rony and Vera
Democritus

• Democritus had apparently discovered what is now


called the building blocks of life in about 430 BCE
• What we now know as the atom was originally
called "Atomos" which means "indivisible"
• For his theory he said that all things were
composed of Atomos or fundamentals, atoms
cannot be destroyed and are separated by the
empty space or a void
• Demetrious said that atoms were uniform, solid,
hard and which has been seen to be true
• What has been found that is false is he believed
atoms were indestructible and indevisable
Aristotle

• Aristotle made his theory about atoms


sometime before 330 BC
• Aristotle's theory was that a mass of a very massive
size was everywhere around, which he named
"hyle".
• In his theory there were no separate "particles" in
things.
• He also believed that everything was made up of
the four elements: water, air, fire and earth.
Dalton
• In 1804 Dalton proposed his atomic theory
• Dalton believed that all matter was composed of
atoms, inadvisable and institute
• For his theory and model Dalton said that matter is
composed of extremely small particles called
atoms
• The positive aspects of his model show that his theory
dosent vilotae the several fundamental laws of chemical
combination
• The incorrect aspects however show that he didn’t count
for isotopes, different ones have different atomic mass,
and he didn’t account for that
Thomson
• Thomson made his discovery on April
third, 1897
• For his theory he said that a atom is a
positly charged spher that has
negatively chard electrons implanted
into it
• He named his model the "plumb
putting model"
• The positive aspects of Thomsons
model are that he successfully
explaind the electrons neutrality of an
atom
• The negatives of the model however
are he failed to menchen how positive
charges hold on to the electrons
Rutherford
• In 1911 Rutherford made his discovery
• His atomic model was known as the nuclear
model, in the nuclear atom the protons and
neutrons which made nearly all of the mass
of the atom
• The name of his modle was Ruthfors atomic
moddle
• The posotive aspects of Ruthfords moddle
are that he assumed most of the atoms
were hollow his model was able to explain
the gold foil experiment And answers the
question why atoms are electrically neutral
• The negitive aspects of his moddle were that
he faild to explain the stability of electons in
crirular paths
Bohr
• In 1915 Niels Bohr proposed his model for the atom
• Bohr model was just named planetary model
• The Bohr model was a planetary model in which the
positively charged nucleus as the sun and the
negatively charged electrons which orbit the nucleus
like the planets
• Positive: it made accurate predictions for smaller
atoms like hydrogen
• Negative: it made poor predictions for larger atoms
Schrodinger
• Schrodinger mad his discovery during the
first half of 1926
• For his discovery he said that particles
could behave like waves
• The name of his discovery was called
"Schrodinger's wave equetion"
• The posotive aspects of his theory are that
his queation contains all the possible
information about the quintom system
• The negitive apects of his thory are that it
dose not give the exact position of an
electron in the orbital at a given time

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Millikan
• In 1910 Robbert Millikan started working on figuring out the individual
charge of an electron, he later published his results in 1913
• Robbert Millikan experiment used charged tiny oil droplets to pass
through a hole into an electric field, by changing the strength of the
electric field the charge of an oil droplets was calculated
• The name of the experiment was called the oil-drop experiment
• Positive: the experiment demonstrated the charge of an electron.
• Negative: he only used electrons from oil droplets
Chadwick
• Chadwick made his discovery in May
1932
• He named his descovery " The newtron"
• In his descovery he descovrd the
fundementals of nuclar science, he
proved the exsitans of newtrons and
elemtery particles
• The positives of Chadwick's discovery
are how he contributed significantly
to atomic theory and the neutron was
able to explain the nature of the atomic
nucleus and its extra mass and spin
• The negitive are how it carries limitations
due to its inability to account for certain
subatomic phenomena.
Eugen Goldstein
• In 1886 Eugen Goldstein discovered what
he would later call canal rays
• The Raisin pudding model of the atom
was the he gave his model
• Eugan Goldstein concluded that in
addition to the electrons that travel from
the negatively charged cathode toward
the positively charged anode, there is
another ray that travels in the opposite
direction.
• Positive: his work help support the idea
atoms have positive and negative
charges
• Negative: he didn’t identify the exact
nature or structure of these positive
partticles.

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