Atomic Theory - Key Scientists

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What did Rutherford discover using his "Gold Foil" experiment?

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the nucleus

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What did James Chadwick discover in 1932?

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neutrons

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In what year did Erwin Schrödinger create the Quantum Mechanical model of the atom?

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1926

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What part of Dalton's atomic theory was later disproved by the discovery of the proton and the electron?

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Atoms are indivisible

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Eugen Goldstein discovered the ____ in 1886

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proton

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The Greek word "atomos", which is where we get the word "atom", means

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indivisible

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The first person to suggest the idea of the atom was

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Democritus

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Which scientist discovered that electrons move and behave like waves in the year 1923?

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Louis de Broglie

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The first atomic model created by JJ Thomson was called

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The Plum Pudding Model

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In his atomic model known as the Bohr's Model, Niels Bohr stated that electrons were found in specific: elements, nuclei, orbitals, roundabouts

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orbitals