John Dalton
His model is known as S____ S_____ Model
Solid Sphere
What model of the atomic structure did he create?
The plum pudding model
What is the name of his atomic model?
N______ model.
What was the name of his atomic model? P________ model
Planetary model.
What animal did Schrödinger use to explain his most famous thought experiment?
A Cat
Which country was he born? You have one guess.
England
In 1906, Thomson demonstrated that _______ had only a single electron per atom. Previous theories allowed various numbers of electrons.
Hydrogen.
What material did he fire positively charged particles at?
Gold foil
Where was Bohr born? You have 3 guesses. Hint: Neighbours Sweden.
Denmark.
Which country was he both born in and die in? You have three guesses.
Dalton drew upon the ancient Greek word "atomos" which means _________?
Indivisible, or cannot be divided.
What year did he win the Nobel Prize in Physics? 1856, 1904 or 1906
1906. He proposed his most famous theory in 1904 and was born in 1856.
What type of charge did he realise was located in the nucleus of the atom?
Positive charge
What did he win in 1922?
Nobel Prize in Physics.
To this day, Schrödinger is known as the father of ______ mechanics.
quantum
(Schrödinger was not entirely comfortable with the implications of quantum theory. Schrödinger wrote about the probability interpretation of quantum mechanics, saying: "I don't like it, and I'm sorry I ever had anything to do with it.")
element
On 22 December 1884, Thomson was appointed Cavendish Professor of Physics at the University of C________.
Cambridge.
What did he propose that atoms were mostly made from?
Empty space.
Bohr modified Rutherford´s model of the atom by stating that electrons moved around the nucleus in orbits of fixed sizes and e_______.
...energies.
Schrödinger proposed that electrons move around the nucleus not in set paths, but in w____s?
Waves.
How was Dalton´s model of the atom flawed?
One of his students was E_____ ________, who later succeeded him as Cavendish Professor of Physics.
Ernest Rutherford
Where was he born? You have 3 guesses. Hint: Not Europe
New Zealand
Who is regarded as having the most accurate model of the atom, Bohr or Schrödinger?
Schrödinger
What year did he win the Nobel prize? 1922 or 1962?