History in the Developmet of the Structure of Atom

Around 450 B.C., the Greek philosopher Democritus introduced the idea of the atom.
... He provided evidence for atoms and developed atomic theory. His theory is
essentially correct. However, he incorrectly thought that atoms are the smallest
particles of matter.

Different Contributions of scientist:

Democritus- was an Ancient Greek Aristotle- did not believe in the

Pre-Socratic philosopher and scientist. Atomic theory and he taught so

Only fragments og his work remain. Otherwise. He thought that all

He contributed to the theory of atomism, materials on Earth were not made

Propounded by his teacher Leucippus,by of atoms, but of the four elements,

Suggesting that all matter considered Earth, Fire,Water,and Air. He belived

of tiny, invisible particles four elements of

matter.
John Dalton. Experiments with gases that first became possible
at the turn of the nineteenth century led John Dalton in 1803 to
propose a modern theory of the atombased on the following
assumptions. 1. Matter is made up of atoms that are indivisible
and indestructible.

J. Thomson, who discovered the electron

in 1897, proposed the plum puddingmodel of the atom in 1904
before the discovery of the atomic nucleus in order to include the
electron in the atomic model. In Thomson's model, the atom is
composed of electrons (which Thomson still called “corpuscles,”
though G. J.

Thomson atomic model earliest

theoretical description of the inner structure of atoms, proposed
about 1900 by William Thomson (Lord Kelvin) and strongly
supported by Sir Joseph John Thomson, who had discovered
(1897) the electron, a negatively charged part of every atom.

Rutherford overturned
Thomson's model in 1911 with his well-known gold foil experiment in
which he demonstrated that the atom has a tiny and heavy
nucleus.Rutherford designed an experiment to use the alpha
particles emitted by a radioactive element as probes to the
unseen world of atomic structure.

James Chadwick played a vital role in

the atomic theory, as he discovered the Neutron in atoms. Neutrons
are located in the center of an atom, in the nucleus along with the
protons. They have neither a positive nor negative charge,
butcontribute the the atomic weight with the same effect as a
proton.Nov 18, 2014