ATOMS TIMELINE

BY: CAMILA SALOMÓN, VIVIANA MOLINERO, ANA CASTRO, JIMENA

CABALLERO
Democritus
Democritus was a
Greek philosopher who
was 400BC
the first person to use
JOHN DALTON
the term atom
(atomos: John Dalton was the
meaning indivisible). first to adapt
1800's Democritus’ theory
J.J. THOMSOM into the first modern
J.J Thomson was a
atomic
physicist who is credited model.
for discovering the
electron. He used his 1890's Rutherford
research on cathode ray
tube technology in this Ernest Rutherford was not
discovery. convinced about the model of
the atom
1987 proposed by Thomson. He thus
set up his now famous Gold
NIELS Bohr
Foil
He worked and studied with
Rutherford the way that
atoms react to light. Bohr's
1913
resuñts led him to propose ERWIN SCHRÖDINGER
that electrons move around Erwin Schrödinger was a
the nucleus in vertain paths, revolutionary physicist
or energy levels. who used Heisenberg’s
20th
uncertainty principle to
century
come up with the atomic
model that we still use
today.

Rutherford

Democritus

Thomson

Bohr