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“TIMELINE OF

THE EVOLUTION
OF ATOMIC
THEORY”
MAHARISHI KANAD
“When we divided
matter into their
particles, ultimately, we
reach a stage when the
matter CANNOT be
divided further”.

MATTER- PADARTHA
PARMANU-PARTICLE
PAKUDHA KATYAYAMA

“INDIVISIBLE PARTICLES
come in DIFFERENT
COMBINATIONS to make up
DIFFERENT KINDS OF
MATTER”.
LEUCIPPUS AND DEMOCRITUS
460-370 BC
“ If we divide matter continuously, then we reach
a stage where it cannot be divided further”.

A
T
All matter is made There are an infinite
O
up of tiny particles number of atoms
called atoms. M and kinds of atoms
O which differ in shape
S and size.

Atoms have always Between atoms there


been and always will Indivisible and is empty space.
be in motion. Indestructible.
JOHN DALTON (ENGLISH-CHEMIST)
1766-1844

o DALTON’S ATOMIC THEORY


o BILLIARD BALL MODEL OF
ATOM
-atom is a
uniform,
solid sphere
POSTULATES OF DALTON’S
ATOMIC THEORY
1. All matter is made up 4. Atoms of different
of very tiny particles elements have different
called Atoms. masses and chemical
properties.
2. Atoms are indivisible 5. Atoms combine in a
particles which cannot be ratio of small whole
created or destroyed in numbers to form
chemical reaction. compounds.
3. Atoms of a given
6. The relative number
elements are identical in
and kinds of atoms are
mass and chemical
constant in a given
properties.
compound.
JOSEPH JOHN THOMSON
1856-1940 (English-Physicist)

o DISCOVERED ELECTRON
o CHOCOLATE COOKIE MODEL
o PLUM-PUDDING EXPERIMENT
-positive sphere
(pudding) with
negative
electrons (plums)
dispersed
throughout
JOSEPH JOHN THOMSON
1. Discovered the 2. Found the
first subatomic first
particle.
ELECTRON
evidence of
(1897) ISOTOPES.

3. Suggested
that electron
5.Discovere 4.Electron were 1,000
were times smaller
d electrons originally than the atom.
using termed as
cathode ray “CORPUSCL
tubes. ES”
ERNEST RUTHERFORD
British-Scientist -1911

o ALPHA SCATTERING
EXPERIMENT
o GOLD-FOIL
EXPERIMENT
o NUCLEAR MODEL OF
ATOM
o DISCOVERED
NUCLEUS/PROTON
Nuclear Model
dense, positive nucleus surrounded by negative
electrons
Ernest Rutherford

o Differentiated and named ALPHA and


BETA radiation.
o Father of NUCLEAR PHYSICS.
ROBERT ANDREW MILLIKAN
1916

oOIL DROP EXPERIMENT


oPHOTOELECTRIC EFFECT EXPERIMENT
- Determines the mass of the
electrons 1/1846 of a hydrogen atom.
- Mass of electron is 9.11 x 10 g
-28
NIELS BOHR (Danish-Physicist)
1885-1962

o BOHR’S MODEL OF
ATOM
o PLANETARY MODEL
OF ATOM
(JIMMY NEUTRON)
o ENERGY LEVEL
Niels Bohr

PLANETARY
MODEL
- electrons move in circular
orbits within specific energy
levels
Niels Bohr

Proposed that energy levels


Electron travel in of electrons are discrete and
circular motion that the electrons revolve in
around the orbits around atomic
nucleus. nucleus but can jump from
one energy level/orbit to
another.

It is provided by
ELECTROSTATIC
FORCES not gravity.
LOUIS DE BROGLIE
(FRENCH-PHYSICIST)

• Who made ground breaking


contributions to quantum
theory.
• Postulated that all matter or
electron exhibits wave-like
properties.
WERNER HEINSBERG
(German-Physicist)

UNCERTAINTY “There is simply


PRINCIPLE just a cloud
surrounding the
nucleus
No experiment can measure containing the
the position and momentum approximate
of quantum particles
simultaneously.
positions of
within them”.
Erwin Schrödinger (1926)

• Quantum mechanics
– electrons can only exist in
specified energy states

• Electron cloud model


– orbital: region around the
nucleus where e- are likely
to be found
Erwin Schrödinger (1926)

Electron Cloud Model (orbital)


• dots represent probability of finding an e-
not actual electrons
James Chadwick (1932)

• Discovered neutrons
– neutral particles in the
nucleus of an atom

• Joliot-Curie
Experiments
– based his theory on their
experimental evidence
James Chadwick (1932)

Neutron Model
• revision of Rutherford’s Nuclear Model

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