Our understanding of the physical world has grown at an incredible rate in the last 200 years. The key to the advances made in chemistry has been our growing knowledge about atoms. In this unit we will look at some of the early historical discoveries that helped us build up a useful 'working model' of the atom.
The atom was studied by many talented scientists. Thanks to the help of the following people we know more about the atom and its properties. For further information on how each person contributed to the knowledge of the atom, click on their name listed to the left.
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