TIMELINE

DEVELOPMENT
OF THE ATOM
STRUCTURE

1 JOHN DALTON
John Dalton's discoveries are

8 all matter is indestructible

and indivisible and particles

0 are made of spheres. He also

discovered atoms of one
element cannot be converted

0 to another element.

ERNEST RUTHFORD
1 Ernest Ruthford
discovered the nuclear
8 structure of an atom and
alpha and beta rays, he

7 concluded this theory by

conducting the famous

1 gold foil and alpha rays

experiment 1885
NEIL BOHR
Neil Bohr discovered
the Quantum
theory. He also
discovered that the
further away an
electron is from the
nucleus, the more

1 JAMES
CHADWICK
the less energy it
has.

8 James Chadwick conducted an

9
experiment that proved
neutron existed in which
Polonium's natural radioactive

1
decay produced alpha
particles which blasted onto
Beryllium.

J.J
1 THOMPSON
8 J.J Thompson discovered cathode rays
and that they consisted of negative
ray charges, another one of his

9 discovery is electrons that orbit the

nucleus.