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John Dalton
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Came up with the idea of the atoms like billard balls, solid spheres
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Ernest Rutherford
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Did the Gold Experiment, came up with the idea atoms are mostly empty space
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Albert Einstein
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Determined how energy is given off as photons of light, came up with the idea of the photoelectric effect
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Max Planck
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Determined energy is absorbed as quanta
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Werner Heisenberg
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Came up with the uncertainty principle, saying it is impossible to simultaneously determine the position and velocity of an electron for it would disturb it randomly
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Louis DeBroglie
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Proposed that all living mass be described as a wave
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Erwin Schroedinger
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Came up with orbitals and orbital configuration
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Neils Bohr
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Calculated how much energy would be absorbed in order for certain frequencies of light to be given off, six energy levels
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