Atomic Theory: The Development of the Atomic Theory: The terms theory and model are defined, ... Thomson, and Rutherford. Aired 01/03/2002 | Rating NR. Problems playing video?

In 1899, Thomson published a description of his version of the atom, commonly known as the "plum pudding model." An excerpt of this paper is found on the Chem Team site.

Thomson took the idea of the atom and tried to incorporate the evidence for the electron. In this model, ... Rutherford's experiment prompted a change in the atomic model.

The results did have a profound effect on Rutherford, however, who in 1910 set about determining a model of atomic structure that would supersede Thomson's plum pudding model, Manners wrote in his ...

THE GENERAL PICTURE OF THE ATOM. THE present state of atomic theory is characterised by the fact that we not only believe the existence of atoms to be proved beyond a doubt, butalso we even ...

Rutherford and Bohr describe atomic structure 1913. Photo: Niels Bohr's research notes for his new atomic theory. In 1911, Niels Bohr earned his PhD in Denmark with a dissertation on the electron ...

IN the review of “A New View of the Origin of Dalton's Atomic Theory,” published in your issue of April 16, your reviewer, in summing up the evidence as to the origin of the atomic theory ...

But just five years after Thomson published his model in 1904, it was disproved by an experiment directed by a New Zealand-born scientist who became known as the father of nuclear physics, Ernest ...