Scientists Flashcards

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Robert Boyle

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Elements are the building blocks of matter

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Joseph Priestly

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Discovered 8 gases

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Antoine Lavoisier

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“father of modern chemistry”

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John Dalton

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Dalton’s Theory of Matter

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John Berzelius

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Found atomic weights

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Dmitri Mendeleev

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Created the periodic table

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Joseph J Thomson

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Discovered the electron

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Max Planck

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Quantum theory, energy vs. frequency

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Ernest Rutherford

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Discovered nucleus

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Robert Millikan

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Found the charge of the electron

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Niels Bohr

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Electrons orbit around the nucleus

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F.W. Aston

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Discovered isotopes

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Louis de Broglie

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Electrons are in clouds

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Karl Werner Heisenberg

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“Uncertainty principle”

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James Chadwick

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Discovered the neutron

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