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Democritus
Passing/partial resemblance to the nineteenth-century understanding of atomic structure -
Newtown
Proposed a mechanical universe with small solid masses in motion -
Dalton
Proposed an "atomic theory" with spherical solid atoms based upon measurable properties of mass -
G. J. Stoney
introduced the concept of the electron -
J. J. Thomson
Discovered methods of separating the atom -
Planck
Founder of the quantum theory -
Nagaoka
Developed a rough atom structure -
Millikan
Determined the value of the charge of the electron -
Rutherford
Predicted that the neutron existed -
G. J. Moseley
Established that the nucleus is very small, very dense and positively charged -
Bohr
Arranged the Periodic Table in order of their atomic numbers -
James Chadwick
Discovered neutron existed