A | B |
Democritus | 440 BC |
Thomson | 1897 |
Bohr | 1913 |
Rutherford | 1911 |
Dalton | 1803 |
Schrodinger and Heisenberg | 20th Century |
There are small negatively charged particles inside an atom. | Thomson |
There is a small, dense, positively charged nucleus. | Rutherford |
Most of an atom's mass is in the nucleus. | Rutherford |
Electrons jump between levels from path to path. | Bohr |
He conducted the cathode-ray tube experiment. | Thomson |
Atoms of different elements are different. | Dalton |
Atoms contain mostly empty space. | Rutherford |
Atoms are small, hard particles. | Democritus |
He conducted experiments in combining elements. | Dalton |
Atoms are "uncuttable". | Democritus |
Electron paths cannot be predicted. | 20th Century |
Electrons travel in definite paths. | Bohr |
Electrons move in empty space in the atom. | Rutherford |
His theory of atomic structure became the "plum-pudding" model | Thomson |
Electrons are found in electron clouds, not paths. | 20th Century |
Atoms of the same element are exactly alike. | Dalton |
Atoms constantly move. | Democritus |
All substances are made from atoms. | Dalton |
He conducted the gold foil experiment. | Rutherford |
Elements combine in specific proportions. | Dalton |