• Robert Millikan

o Discovered the charge of an electron (1910)

o Proved that this charge was the same for all electrons (1910)
o Was a began teaching as a professor at the University of Chicago (1910)
• Neils Bohr
o Niels Bohr won a Nobel Prize (1922)
o Niels Bohr worked on the Manhattan Project in America under President FDR (1942)
o Niels Bohr discovered 235U (Uranium isotope), allowed for slow-neutron fission (1939)
o Niels Bohr created the Planetary model (1913)
• Democritus (460-370BC)
o The United States was unknown/didn’t exist at this point in time
o First to extensively hypothesize existence of atoms (5th century BC)
 All matter was made up of invisible particles (atoms)
 Atoms are unchangeable
 Atoms are homogenous (the same throughout)
• James Chadwick
o James Chadwick proved that neutrons exist (1932)
o James Chadwick won the Nobel Prize for physics (1935)
o James Chadwick won the Hughes Medal of the Royal society (1932)
• William Crookes- 1879
o Discovered that cathode rays
 Travel in straight lines from the cathode
 Give an object a negative charge when they touch
 Have mass
• Ernest Rutherford- (1908-1909)
o Conducted an experiment in which he shot particles at gold foil (1909)
o Discovered that atoms had a nucleus (1908)
o Created the “nuclear model” of an atom (1908)
• Erwin Schrödinger
o Erwin Schrödinger won a Nobel Prize (1933)
o Erwin Schrödinger calculated the way electrons orbit about the nucleus (1926)
o Erwin Schrödinger left continental Europe and moved to England (1933)
o Erwin Schrödinger built off of Bohr’s information to create the electron cloud model (1920s)
• John Dalton- 1803
o All atoms from the same element are identical
o Chemical reaction happen when atoms get rearranged
o Thought that atoms from different elements could be told apart by their weight
o Created the Solid Sphere model
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o J.J. Thomson discovered electrons (1897)
o J.J. Thomson was knighted (1908)
o J.J. Thomson won the Nobel Prize for physics (1906)
o J.J. Thomson created the Plum Pudding model (1897)