| 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 |