A brief presentation on the history of the atom
1800 Dalton: “Matter indeed, seems to consist of elementary lumpy particles”
1897 J.J. Thomson: Discovered the electron and proposed a model for the structure of the atom: “Rasin in the pudding” He knew that e - had negative charge
1900 Max Planck: When you vibrate atoms strong enough, you can measure the energy only in discrete units (quanta)
1905 Albert Einstein: Light absorption can release e - from atoms. “The Photoelectric effect” (Nobel Prize 1921)
1911 Ernest Rutherford: Bombarded atoms with α ++. He came up with a new theory about the structure od the atom: “Solar System” like Problems: Loss of energy, continuous spectrum expercted
1912 Niels Bohr: Introduced “Rules” 1. Allowed Orbits 2. Jump from Higher Energy orbit to Lower Energy orbit results to energy emission
1920 Bohr – Sommerfeld: Expanded the initial rules: Orbits of different shapes (Quantum Numbers)
1924 Wolfgang – Pauli: Electron spin, “Pauli’s exclusion principle”
1926 Erwin Schrodinger: “Why not try to form a model for particle- waves”
1927 Werner Heisenberg: “Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle”
James Chadwik: Discovery of the neutron Carl Anderson: Discovered the positron, which Dirac had predicted in 1928 but was rejected at first Heisenberg: Particles exchange photons
1935 Hideki Yukawa: Exchange particles for strong force
1940 Feynman, Schwinger: Four known forces, particles
Source Compiled by Jim Walker Presentation made by: Tsourlidaki Eleftheria