ZOSIMUS

250 A.D
THE CHANGING IBNU HAYYAN
ca.721-815 AD
PARACELSUS
1493-1541 A.D
ROBERT BROWN
(1773-1858)

VIEW OF ATOM
According to Democritus' atomic
According to legend, He proposed a mechanical
theory, the universe and all
Albert is said to have universe where small solid
matter obey the following
discovered the masses were in motion. In
principles: Everything is
philosopher's stone and short, he believed that there
composed of “atoms”, which are
passed it on to his pupil were little tiny pieces of mass
physically, but not
Thomas Aquinas, shortly that were 'swimming'
geometrically, indivisible.
before his death. everywhere.

Zosimus was an He emphasized systematic He initiated science as He is perhaps best known
Egyptian born Greek experimentation, an integral part of for his discovery of the
alchemist who believed and did much to free medicine for the first random movement of
that all substances are alchemy from superstition time. Paracelsus emph
composed of the four microscopic particles in a
and turn it into a science. asized the curative surrounding solution, later
elements – Fire, Water power that was referred to as "Brownian
Air and Earth.
inherent in nature. motion."
DEMOCRITUS ALBERTUS MAGNUS ISAAC NEWTON
460–370 B.C CA. 1200-1280 A.D 1642- 1727 AD

NIELS BOHR JAMES CHADWICK

J.J THOMSON 1885-1962 1891-1974
1856-1940 Rutherford overturned Heisenberg is best known for his uncertainty
Thomson's model in 1911 with his well- principle and theory of quantum mechanics,
Dalton's atomic theory proposed which he published at the age of twenty-
that all matter was composed known gold foil experiment in which he
demonstrated that the atom has a tiny three in 1925.
of atoms, indivisible and Erwin Schrödinger showed that the
indestructible building blocks. and heavy nucleus. Rutherford designed
an experiment to use the alpha particles quantization of the hydrogen atom's energy
While all atoms of an element were levels that appeared in Niels Bohr's atomic
identical, different elements had emitted by a radioactive element as
probes to the unseen world of atomic model could be calculated from
atoms of differing size and mass. the Schrödinger equation.
structure.

J. J. Thomson, who discovered In 1913, Niels Bohr proposed Neutrons are located in the

the electron in 1897, proposed a theory for the hydrogen atom based center of an atom, in the
the plum pudding model of on quantum theory that energy is nucleus along with the protons.
the atom in 1904 before the transferred only in certain well-defined They have neither a positive
discovery of quantities. Electrons should move nor negative charge,
the atomic nucleus in order to around the nucleus but only in but contribute the
include the electron in prescribed orbits. ... Bohr's theory could atomic weight with the same
the atomic model. explain why atoms emitted light in fixed effect as a proton.
wavelengths.
JOHN DALTON
ERNEST RUTHERFORD ERNEST SCHRODINGER
1266-1844
1871-1937 AND WERNER HEISENBERG