From The Chemistry Book
Greek Society
Democritus
Democritus (465 BC) was a student of Leucippus. Both men promoted the atomists perspective that the world is made of the atom and void.
Aristotle
Aristotle supported the Empedoclean Theory that substances are made up of air, fire, earth, and water.
Further Reading
Dark Ages
Baghdad and China are two places of interest in Alchemy during the 8th to 15th centuries.
Middle Ages
Alchemists
Early Chemists
- Robert Boyle (1627–1691)
- Jan Baptista van Helmont (1648)
- Joseph Priestley (1733-1804)
- Lavoisier (1743-1794)
- Henry Cavendish
Further Readings
Modern Chemists
- 1803 John Dalton
- 1824-1907 Kelvin, Lord William Thomson
- 1897 J. J. Thomson
- 1900 Max Planck
- 1904 Hantaro Nagaoka
- 1905 Albert Einstein
- 1911 Ernest Rutherford
- 1913 Niels Bohr
- 1923 Louis de Broglie
- 1926 Erwin Schrodinger
- 1932 James Chadwick
Further Reading
- Chemistry Teaching Resources
- History of Chemistry by History World
- Using the History of Science in the Classroom
- History of Atoms
