atomic developemnt thoery Flashcards
they all contributed to the question
what does an atom made of
democritus 440 BCE
that everything in the world was made up of tiny particles surrounded by empty space.
They vary in size and shape depending on the substance they composed off
called it atomos – indivisible (unable to divide)
purely theoretical
aristotle
matter was made up of 4 elements (water, wind fire and earth)
john dalton 1766-1844
said that common substances alays breakdown to the same elements and the same amnt
compounds made up of atoms of different elements, each of a particular size and mass
can be created nr destroyed
jj thomson
1897 discovery of electron
atoms were uniformly packed speheres of postive matter packed with negativley charged electrons
his modeldidnt stick around
ernest rutherford
a student of thompson?
father of nuclear age
alpha particles to gold foil
cicnlded that atoms cocnsist of large space, with just few electrons
all of the weight as centered, “nucleus”
niels bohr
one of thimpson student
expanded rutherfrods theory
electrons orbit the nucleus at fixed distance and energies
able to jump from one level/ orbit to another but not to exist in the space
planatary model