Historical development of an ATOM

- Between atoms there is empty space Rutherford Model MODERN ATOM THEORY
- Atoms cannot be destroyed
- They will always be in motion This model shows that Bohr's model of the electrons orbit is
- There is an infinite number of atoms inaccurate. In fact electrons travel in clouds and it is impossible to
Unfortunately Democritus was unable to validate any of this, and it pinpoint the exact location of an electron. Equations have been
wasn’t until about 2 millennia later that could successfully give any devised that illustrate the wave patterns of these electrons, and
proof.
shows their location.
DEMOCRITUS was a
Greek philosopher
(470- 380 B.C.) Rutherford used the golf foil experiment to prove that an atom
He claimed Everything is consisted of a tiny, positively charged, dense core, a nucleus, in which
made up of atoms, and are negatively charged electrons circled. He also stated that alpaha
physically indivisible, but particles (the nucleus) were able to be emmitted by a source of
not geometrically radiation. It was during this time that the proton was eventually
discovered.

Thomson's Model
Bohr discovered, in 1903 that atoms are able to give off light. This
depends on wavelengths or frequencies. He was also able to prove
JOHN DALTON was an English scientist who made his discovery in 1803 that electrons circled the nucleus on stable orbits. Bohr corrected
Dalton’s Atomic Theory states that:
fault in Rutherford's model. If charged particle moving on a path
- All matter is made up of atoms
Atoms are indivisible and indestructible emits electromagnetic radiation the electron would lose its charge
- All atoms of a given element are identical in mass and properties and collide into the nucleus
- Compounds are formed by a combination of two or more different
types of atoms
Bohr Model
Thomson made his discovery of the electron in 1897
Thomson’s model of the atom showed a sphere of positively charged matter
embedded with electrons, which is different from what we know to be true today. This
model is known as the plum pudding model, and was created in 1904. It was made
before the discovery of the nucleus. It was abandoned, however, in 1911 in favor of
Rutherford’s model.