Famous Chemists
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| S.P.L. Sørensen | Designed the pH scale to measure acidity in fluids.
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| Alessandro Volta | Built one of the first batteries, using copper, zinc, and brine-soaked cardboard.
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| John Dalton | Proved through his experiments that all things are made of atoms.
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| J.J. Thomson | Discovered that atoms are made of even smaller parts, called subatomic particles. He built a model of an atom that showed protons and electrons have an electric nature.
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| Earnest Rutherford | Proved that an atom has a nucleus. He also showed that the majority of each atom is just empty space. His model of an atom also showed electrons spaced out around a central cluster.
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| Niels Bohr | Built a model of an atom, showing that electrons move in a circular motion around the nucleus. His model is still used today to help students understand what an atom probably looks like.
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| Earnest Rutherford and James Chadwick | Later discovered that there are also neutral particles inside an atom. They called these particles neutrons.
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| Robert Boyle | He has often been called the “father of modern chemistry,” because of his discoveries about matter, elements, and compounds.
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| Dmitri Mendeleev | Organized the known elements into what is now known as the Periodic Table.
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| Alfred Nobel | He was a dedicated scientist, and grew rich because of his many inventions and advances. His most famous invention was dynamite. Before he died, he set up an estate for scientific advancements.
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