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History of Science--Mrs. P. Zeck
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Chemistry
10th Grade
03/23/2009

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Democritus
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atomos (invisible)
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Aristotle
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view prevailed for 2000 years--hyle-continuous matter
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Sir Isaac Newton/Robert Boyle
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beleived atomic theory
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John Dalton
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studied other's work; law of definite proportions; law of multiple proportions
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William Crooks
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gases have electrical discharges
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J.J. Thomson
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figured out Crooks' experiments and discovered electrons laid groundwork for protons Had plum pudding model
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Robert Millikan
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oil drop to measure change on electrons
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Ernest Rutherford
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radioactive decay and absolute dating gold foil, space between atoms alpha decay
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Henry Becquerel
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accidently discovered radioactivity
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Madame Marie Curie/Pierre Curie
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Tried every known element for radioactivity. Radium and polonum. He died she drove X-ray truck for military. Uranium ore
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Niels Bohr
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worked with Rutherford w/Einstein and Mat Plank's work explained spectrum and each element emits a set of wavelength if energy that can be measured Atoms are stable states radiation occured during transition slow electrons=more fission than other
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Henry Moseley
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finalized periodic table by atomic # not mass
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Einstein
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Letter to FDR and use graphite
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Enrico Fermi
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Beta decay
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Francis Aston
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introduced mass spectograph to discover isotopes found 212 of 287 naturally occuring. critical work for nuclear theory
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Otto Hahn
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Meitner research partner left her off award recieved with her research fission
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Fritz Strassmann
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Movie
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Lise Meitner
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actually figured out fission got credit before she escaped to holland
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Otto Frisch
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Lise Meitner's nephew helped with fission
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Frederic and Irene Joliot-Curie
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produced artificial elements by bombarding Boron with alpha particles
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Julius Oppenheimer
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in charge of Las Alamos
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Glen Seaborg
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Elements after U atomic\nuclear comissions
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