EVOLUTION OF CONCEPT

OF THE ELEMENTS AND

ATOMS

Dalton's atomic theory was
the first complete attempt
to describe all matter in
terms of atoms and their
The plum pudding model is one of
several historical scientific models of
the atom. First proposed by J. J.
Thomson in 1904 soon after the
discovery of the electron, but before
The Rutherford model was devised by the New
Zealand-born physicist Ernest Rutherford to
describe an atom. Rutherford directed the
Geiger–Marsden experiment in 1909, which
suggested, upon Rutherford's 1911 analysis,
that J. J. Thomson's plum pudding model of

the atom was incorrect

properties the discovery of the atomic

MALAK EL HALABI
MALAK EL HALABI

In atomic physics, the Bohr model or

Rutherford–Bohr model, presented by Niels Erwin Schrödinger proposed the

Bohr and Ernest Rutherford in 1913, is a quantum mechanical model of the atom,

system consisting of a small, dense nucleus which treats electrons as matter waves.
surrounded by orbiting electrons—similar to
... Electrons have an intrinsic property
the structure of the Solar System, but with
called spin, and an electron can have
attraction provided by electrostatic forces in
one of two possible spin values: spin-up
place of gravity
or spin-down