the history of atoms
TRANSCRIPT
--------------- 400 BC: Democritus ----------------1803: Dalton ----------------1904: Thompson ----------------1911: Ernest Rutherford ----------------1915: Niels Bohr ----------------1927: Louis de Brogile ----------------1932: James Chadwick
Atomic Model TimelineAtomic Model Timeline
Democritus Model and His Ideas• born around 460 BC in north Greece
• rejected the Eleatic school hypothesis that “everything is one” and change and motion is an illusion
everything consists of an infinite amount of very small particles called “atoms” and space
• atoms can be physically divided, are indestructible, contain no space, and are eternal
• many types of atoms having different sizes and shape
• atoms move at random like gases
Dalton Model
• born in England in 1766
• wanted to take up law or medicine but his family didn’t approve
• after being laid off he began keeping a record of meteorology and air circulation
• he then became a secretary to a philosophical society where he presented his essays on gas laws
is now most known for theory his theory that all atoms of a given elementare exactly alike and atoms of a different element have different atomic weights and the plum pudding model
Thomson Model• born in England in 1856
• was always interested in science
• disproved the assumption that atoms were clear
• discovered that atoms contain electrons after deflecting rays from the electric field
Rutherford Model• born in 1871
• came up with the terms alpha and beta during his research of radioactivity and discovered the half-life
• shot alpha and beta particles through gold foil and discovered that most went through, indicating that atoms are mostly space
• some particles bounced back, providing proof of the positive nucleus
• suggested Thompson’s plum pudding model was incorrect
Bohr Model
• born in 1885 in Denmark
• Helped found the Institute of Theoretical Physics
• worked on the Manhattan Project in the U.S.
• Determined that electrons orbit the nucleus in shells and can be movedto other shells