important people Flashcards
Dalton
All matter is made up of small particles called atoms
Atoms cannot be created, destroyed or divided into smaller parts
All atoms of the same element have the same mass but different elements have different
masses
Put two elements together and you get a compound
Chemical reactions change the way atoms are grouped but atoms themselves do not
change
Looks like a billiard ball (solid, uniform, sphere)
J.J Thompson
Thought atoms might be made up of smaller particles
Proved that negatively charged electrons were part of an atom
Viewed atom as a “raisin bun”
Rutherford
positively charged protons
neutral neutrons exist in the nucleus
a volume of empty space surround the nucleus
solar system
Bohr
electrons are associated with certain levels
Bohr’s Diagram (valence shells)
Robert Hooke
1665
noticed structured while viewing slices of cork, and named them cells
Anton Van Leeuwenhoek
observes living things under a microscope (animalcules)
Schwann/Schleiden
1838
Proposed that animal and plant tissues are made out of cells.