Scientists Flashcards
1
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Robert Boyle
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Elements are the building blocks of matter
2
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Joseph Priestly
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Discovered 8 gases
3
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Antoine Lavoisier
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“father of modern chemistry”
4
Q
John Dalton
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Dalton’s Theory of Matter
5
Q
John Berzelius
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Found atomic weights
6
Q
Dmitri Mendeleev
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Created the periodic table
7
Q
Joseph J Thomson
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Discovered the electron
8
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Max Planck
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Quantum theory, energy vs. frequency
9
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Ernest Rutherford
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Discovered nucleus
10
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Robert Millikan
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Found the charge of the electron
11
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Niels Bohr
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Electrons orbit around the nucleus
12
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F.W. Aston
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Discovered isotopes
13
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Louis de Broglie
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Electrons are in clouds
14
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Karl Werner Heisenberg
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“Uncertainty principle”
15
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James Chadwick
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Discovered the neutron