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Dalton

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Robert Millikan
Niels Bohr
Erwin Schrödinger
Werner Heisenberg
James Chadwick
 
 
Dalton proposed an "atomic theory" with spherical solid atoms based upon measurable properties of mass. He proposed that there where three different kinds of atoms: simple, compound, and complex.
 
Equipment used: Dalton created models of what he thought atoms looked like.
Born - 1766                       Died - 1844                  Date of Discovery - 1803
 
Around the same time as Dalton's discovery, the Louisiana Purchase from France doubled the size of the U.S.