Part of an Atom
Scientists Name
Model +
Experiment
100

Negatively charged subatomic particle.

What is an electron?

100

First atomic Hypothesis, Greek model, 400 BC, Believed that all matter consisted of tiny units with voids in between.

Who is Democitrus?

100

Utulized Gold foil and alpha particles and found something being deflected in the air.

What is Ernest Rutherford experiment?

200

Positively charged subatomic particle.

 What is a proton?

200

Believed that atoms can be rearranged into different substances, like the Greeks. Theory mostly correct with minor modification.

Who is Dalton?

200

Utulizing a cathode ray tube, found electrons.

What is J.J. Thomsons Model?

300

Neutrally charged subatomic particle.

What is a neutron?

300

Proposed moving particles like electrons have some properties of waves.

Who is Louis de Brogile?

300

Electrons move in spherical orbits at a fixated distance from the nucleus.

What is Bohr’s Model?

400

T/F

Protons and Neutrons are located in the cloud region.

What is False?

400

Confirmed the existence of neutrons.

Who is James Chadwick?

400

Forerunner of the modern fluorescent light tube

What is Crooke’s Cathode Ray Tube?

500

An ___ is made up of three particles called subatomic particles.

What is an Atom?

500

Recognized and named oxygen and hydrogen. Known for his role to finding how Oxygen plays in combustion.

Who is Antoine Lavoisier?

500

Most recent atomic model that describes the electronic structure of the atom.

What is the Quantum Mechanical Model/ Charge-cloud model?