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Date Scientist in Focus Events

450 BC Empedocles Greek scholar named
Empedocles proposed
an idea that matter was
made up of four
different elements,
Earth, Air, Fire and
Water.
400 BC Democritus Proposed that all
matter is made of
very small particles
called atoms, which
cannot be divided
into smaller units.

380 - 320 BC Aristotle He proposed that all

matter was
continuous and can
be further divided
infinitely into smaller
pieces.

1799 Joseph Proust He proposed the law

of definite
proportions.

1808 John Joseph Dalton He formulated the

atomic theory and
proposed the law of
multiple proportions.

1869 Dmitri Mendeleev He arranged the

known elements in a
periodic table based
on their atomic
mass.
1890's Antoine Becquerel They observed that
and Marie Curie radio activity causes
some atoms to break
down spontaneously.
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Date Scientist in Focus Events

1895 Wilhelm Rontgen Was a German mechanical
engineer and physicist, who,
on 8 November 1895,
produced and detected
electromagnetic radiation in
a wavelength range known
as X-rays or Röntgen rays,
an achievement that earned
him the first Nobel Prize in
Physics in 1901.
1897 – 1904 JOHN JOSEPH He was an English physicist
and Nobel laureate in
THOMPSON physics, credited with the
discovery and
identification of the
electron; and with the
discovery of the first
subatomic particle.

1908 – 1917 Robert Millikan He found that the

charge of an electron
is equal to -
1.6022X10^-19 c.

1910 - 1911 and 1919 ERNEST Observed that atoms

RUTHERFORD are mostly empty
space.
Discovered alpha, beta,
and gamma rays
irradiation.
1913 NIELS BOHR and They proposed an
HENRY GWYN atomic model that
JEFFREYS MOSELEY shows electrons move in
concentric orbits
around the nucleus.

1932 James Chadwick He was an English

physicist who was
awarded the 1935 Nobel
Prize in Physics for his
discovery of the neutron
in 1932
1938 Lise Meitner, Conducted experiments
verifying that heavy
Hahn , Strassman elements capture neutrons
and form unstable products
which undergo fission. This
process ejects more
neutrons continuing the
fission chain reaction.
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