The Atom

So we have been discussing the beginnings of the atom, and now I want to know what you think.

-who were the main characters in the development of the atom? Democritus,Aristotle, John Dalton, Joseph John Thomson, Robert Millikan, Max Planck, Ernest Rutherford, Niels Bohr, Louis deBroglie, Erwin Schrodinger, Werner Heisenberg, and James Chadwick.

- Why were they vital to the development of the atom? They made theories about matter and the atom and through time and experiments have contributed to the knowledge of the atom we have today.

_ what made them differnt if anything? These men were thinkers who sought answers to their own questions and theories, they wanted to learn and prove their claims.

- Think about your lessons in history and discuss how the time period that they lived in determined the outcome of their discovery/ or how it influenced those individuals to be the names that we know today (aka did it matter where they grew up or if they had money?)? Democritus is probably the only one of these scientist who had problems proving his theory because of the primitive technology in the ancient Greek era. The other scientists had more advanced technology and their discoveries helped the others that did research down the road.

- Why do we consider the atomic theory still a theory? What are the new developments- would love for you to share new sources here about what you find? The atomic theory is still growing and we are still finding new elements and studying the atoms. The advances we have made through the years have really given us an understanding of the atoms and elements, but we still need to keep learning more about them.

- Why does it matter that we understand the structure of the atom? Because the structure gives us an understanding of why it is the way it is. It also allows us to spot differences that may lead to new elements and theories on atoms.