history of the atom

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democritus

who was the first person that proposed the idea of the atom

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lavoisier

who created the law of conservation of matter (mass of reactants = mass of products)

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proust

who created the law of definite proportion (specific substances always contain the same amu ratio)

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john dalton

who believed that atoms were hard, indestructible spheres

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jj thomson

who was the first person to give internal structure to the atom

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jj thomson

who discovered protons and electrons

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jj thomson

who created the plum pudding model

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robert millikan

who determined the charge for a single electron

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ernest rutherford

who shot alpha particles at a sheet of gold

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ernest rutherford

who discovered the nucleus

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niels bohr

who discovered that electrons circle the nucleus

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sir james chadwick

who discovered the neutron