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Atomic Theory Timeline

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    Democritrus

    Democritrus
    An ancient greek philospher who lived from 460 BC to 37 BC. His theory was that all matters consists of invisible particles called atoms.
  • John Dalton

    John Dalton
    English chemist, meteorologist and physicst. Best known for developing the ancient concept of atoms into a scientific theory.
  • Benjamin Thompson

    Benjamin Thompson
    Thompson was credited with the discovery of the first electron.
  • Max Planck

    Max Planck
    Planck was a German theoretical physicist who orginated quantum theory, which won the nobel prize in Physics in 1918. He was born in Kiel Germany and died on October 4, 1947. Planck wrote a book called "Where is Science Going". He was married to a wife named Marie Merck and later on married Marga von Hoesslin. Planck went to the Ludwig Maximillian Univeresity of Munich and Humboldt University of Berlin.
  • Rutherford

    Rutherford
    British physicist who became known as father of nuclear physics, being the first person to split and atom.
  • Albert Einstein

    Albert Einstein
    Albert Einstein developed the general theory of relativity. He was married to his wife named Elsa with three children. Einstein went to the University of Zurich. He won the nobel prize in Phyisics. He was born in Ulm, Gemany in 1879. Albert was not only a physicist but was also a philosopher.
  • Niels Henrik David Bohr

    Niels Henrik David Bohr
    Bohr found that electrons can only have a certain amount of energy.
  • Pauli Wolfgang

    Pauli Wolfgang
    Wolfgang was an Australian-born Swiss theoretical physicist and one of the pioneers of quantum physics. He was born in Vienna, Austria and died in Zurich, Switzerland on December 15, 1958. Wolfgang studied at Ludwig Maximillian University of Munich. He wrote a book called Atom and archetype.
  • George Zweig

    George Zweig
    George Zweig is an American physicist who was born in Moscow, Russia. He went to University of Michigan. Zweig also was awarded for MacArthur Fellowship. Later in his life he got intersted neurobiology. George worked as a Research Scientist at Los Alamos National Laboratory. He was raised in a Jewish family, his father was a structural engineer. Zweig proposed the existence of Quarks.