| Term | Definition |
| 440 BCE | Democritus: The idea if an Atom. A Atom is not divisable |
| 1803 | Dalton: Atomic Theory- all matter is made of atoms, which are indestuctable and indivisable |
| 1863 | Mendeleev: Discovered the periodic table of elements. He used a periodic table of elements to list elements based on their atomic mass and their properties |
| 1897 | Thompson: he figured out that Atoms are made of elctrons which are negative. |
| 1909 | Rutherford: Gold Foil Experiment. found out that Thompson modle to be wrong. He discovered that proton- necleus is mostly empty space |
| 1913 | Bohr: energy levels- paths of movement called energy levels predicted subatomic behavior. He also said that electrons went in a predictable path. |
| 1914 | Moseley: Atomic Number is used to be more accurate then Meneleev. Also based on protons in attom - rearrange the Peridoic Table of Elements |
| 1927 | Heisenberg: uncertainty principle- exact path of electrons cant be predicted. Also that Bohr's Model was incorrecct |
| 1932 | Chadwick: nutrons are neutral particle. Hard to find because there is no way to catch a neutral particle |