Download A History Of The Atom Theories And Models Background. This video will describe the history of the atom starting with democritus and aristotle all the way to erwin schrodinger and louis de broglie. The following infographic shows the history of the atom:

Scientists have taken the hypothesis of greek scholars and have built on it with their different discoveries and theories regarding the atom, which derives from the greek word atomos, meaning indivisible.

Atom, smallest unit into which matter can be divided without the release of electrically charged particles. The next major advance in the history of the atom was the discovery of electrons. Th graph looks at a(om models and how they developed. History of the atom 400 democritu swas a greek philosopher who was the first person to use the term atom theories and models he thought that if you take a piece of matter and divide it and continue to divide it you will eventually come to a point where you could not divide it any more.