Atomic Structure Table of Contents

"Understanding means seeing that the same thing said different ways is the same thing." --- Ludwig Wittgenstein

• The Origin of the Atom Concept in Greek Philosophy
• Atomic Thinking from Democritus to Dalton
• John Dalton and the Modern Atomic Hypothesis
• From Dalton to J.J. Thomson
• J.J. Thomson and the Discovery of the Electron
• The Thomson Model of the Atom
• J.J. Thomson and the Discovery of the Proton
• Enerst Rutherford's Alpha Particle Scattering Experiment
• The Rutherford Model of the Atom
• Determination of the Charge on the Electron: Thomson to Robert Millikan
• Henry Moseley: The Atomic Number Gives the Number of Protons in the Nucleus
• Rutherford Proposes the Neutron
• James Chadwick and the Discovery of the Neutron
• The Development of the Isotope Concept
• The Mass Spectroscope: J.J. Thomson and Fredrick Aston
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