432 BCE- Empedocles Empedocles was responsible for separating air as a separate substance. In his beliefs air, fire, water, earth mingle and separate under the compulsion of love and strife. 440 BCE- Democritus Democritus’s theory was the first theory to be contributed to the atomic theory. He proposed that the entire world was made up…
Introduction Ernest Rutherford was a New Zealand chemist and physicist. He is known as the father of nuclear physics because of his discovery of the nuclear structure of an atom. This is the discovery that will be explained in this report. This wasn’t his only discovery. He also discovered the concept of radioactive decay (half-lives),…
Biographical Information Born on September 6, 1766, in Eaglesfield, Cumberland County, England Son of a Quaker weaver Suffers from colour blindness Was educated at a Quaker school, where he taught at age 12 Moved to Kendal in 1781 to teach at another school Went to Manchester in 1793 to teach at the New College and…