EARLY IDEAS A

BOUT ATOM
Democritus
Atoms are small solid objects
that cannot be divided,
created, or destroyed.
Atoms are constantly
moving in empty space.
Different types of matter are
made of different types of
atoms.
The properties of the atoms
determine the properties of
matter.
Aristotle
384-322 B.C did not believe
that empty space exists.
His idea: that all matter is
made of fire, water, air, and
earth.
His ideas were accepted.
Therefore the idea of
Democritus about atoms
were not studied again for
more than 2,000 years.
John Dalton
All matter is made up of
atoms that cannot be
divided, created, or
destroyed.
During a chemical reaction,
atoms of one element
cannot be converted into
atoms of another element.
Atoms of one element are
identical to each other but
different from atoms of
another element.
Atoms combine in specific
ratios.
A scanning tunneling microscope created
this image. The yellow sphere is a mangan
ese atom on the surface of gallium arsenid
e.
J.J Thomson
Thomson and other scientists
worked with cathode ray
tubes.
Discovered electron using
cathode ray rube: when the
green rays curved toward
the positively charged plate.
He proposed anew model
of the atom that contained
positive charged and
negatively charged.
Thomson’s atomic model
Thomson’s Cathode Ray tu
be Experiment
Ernest Rutherford

He was a student of J.J

Thomson.
Ernest Rutherford’s student
set up an experiments to test
Thomson’s model and learn
more about what atoms
contain.
The surprising Result