Atomic Models

Atoms are too dangerous to handle.

Atoms are too big too fit in a lab.

Atoms are too small to see with our eyes.

Atoms are too rare and valuable to use in lab studies.

Atoms contain smaller particles with a negative charge.

Atoms are solid spheres.

Atoms are made of negatively-charged particles floating in a positively-charged "sea."

Atoms cannot be destroyed or divided.

In the electrons.

In the nucleus.

In the orbits.

In the plum pudding.

John Dalton (1808)

Ernest Rutherford (1909)

Erwin Shrödinger (1926)

JJ Thomson (1897)

JJ Thomson (1897)

John Dalton (1808)

Niels Bohr (1913)

Erwin Shrödinger (1926)