Atomic Structure Model Scientists Quiz

From his Gold Foil Experiment he concluded that the atom is mostly empty space with tiny, positively charged, dense center he called the nucleus.

• Ernest Rutherford

• Joseph Louis Proust

• Henry Moseley

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Discovered the existence of neutrons

• James Chadwick

• Werner Heisenberg

• Antoine Lavoisier

Proposed that all matter is made up of tiny indivisible particles called atoms.

• Democritus

• Quantum Theory

• Max Planck

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In 1803, proposed the atomic theory of matter

• John Dalton

• James Chadwick

• Louis de Broglie

Introduced the idea that electromagnetic radiation has a dual wave-particle nature. He called these particles photons.

• Albert Einstein

• Joseph Priestley

• Werner Heisenberg

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Concluded the atom had negatively charged particles that he named electrons.

• Joseph Louis Proust

• Quantum Theory

• J.J. Thomson

Suggested the structure of the atom is related to electricity.

• Robert Millikan

• Michael Faraday

• Max Planck

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Suggested that electrons be considered waves confined to the space around the atomic

• Max Planck

• Benjamin Franklin

• Louis de Broglie

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Describes mathematically the wave properties of electrons

• Quantum Theory

• Werner Heisenberg

• Ernest Rutherford

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Discovered radioactivity

• Henri Becquerel

• Democritus

• Erwin Schrodinger

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