Unit 2: History and The Atom Flashcards
Coined the phrase “atomos”; Father of Modern Science
Democritus
The early version of chemistry
Chymistry
Phlogiston Theory
Georg Stahl
Father of Modern Chemistry
Antione Lavoisier
First to quantitively support the idea of atomos, created the Atomic Theory
John Dalton
Created the periodic table
Dimitri Mendeleev
Discovered the electron via a cathode ray device; created plum-pudding model
JJ Thomson
Discovered the charge of an electron via the oil drop experiment
R. A. Milikan
Discovered the proton exists at the center of atoms - the nucleus - via the gold foil experiment
Ernest Rutherford
Created the Bohr model
Neils Bohr
Electrons create a probability density field around the nucleus; one of the fathers of quantum theory
Schrodinger
Discovered the neutron
James Chadwick
Atoms that have the same number of protons but different number of neutrons
Isotopes
Protons + neutrons
Mass number
Average mass of all isotopes for an element
Average atomic mass (amu)