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I am going to discuss the modern concept of the atom. I am going to give a brief history of the atomic model including Thomson's atom, Rutherford's atom, Bohr's atom, and Schrödinger's atom. I am going to include a diagram for each of these models.
In 1897 physicist, J.J. Thomson, shortly after discovering electrons, proposed his Plum-Pudding model of the atom. He based this model on the two facts that he knew at the time: 1. atoms contain small negatively charged particles called electrons and 2. atoms behave as if they have no charge at all, meaning they are electrically neutral. Thomson assumed there must be something in an atom that was positively charged that would neutralize the electrons negative charge. His proposal was a model for the atom that included a cloud of positive electricity in which the negatively charged electrons were embedded. His model is known as the Plum-Pudding Model of the atom. However, after an experiment performed by physicist Ernest......

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