Atomic Model
Atomic Model
Development and complement of the atomic theory of the universe, he stated that
everything that surrounds nature is a mixture of atom and void, atoms move naturally
and consubstantial in the movement they make, collide with each other and combine
when their characteristic properties and forms allow it.
- They differ in shape and size but their internal qualities are the same.
Joseph John Thomson was a British scientist who discovered the first subatomic
particle, the electron, through a cathode ray tube experiment. He was born on
December 18, 1856, and died in 1940, at the age of 83.
He postulated that electrons were uniformly distributed inside the atom, suspended in a cloud
of positive charge. The atom was considered as a positively charged sphere with electrons
distributed like small granules. That is why it is also known as the “PRININ PUDDING” model,
considering the atom as the pudding and the electrons as the raisins.
THOMSON ATOMIC MODEL
Rutherford held a position at a university in Canada where he studied the chemistry of radioactive
This behavior, which sometimes reached deviations of up to 90°, did not agree with the atomic model
proposed by Thompson, prevailing at the time, according to which atoms were diffuse, positively charged
clouds within which there were electromagnetically neutralized electrons . From these results, Rutherford was
able to reformulate the idea of the atom that was used until that time.
BOHR ATOMIC MODEL
Bohr worked on Rutherford's atomic model, and incorporated the Theory of Energy Quantum
developed by Max Planck and Albert Einstein's Photoelectric Effect .
Bohr's atomic model describes in its first postulate the atom as a solar system that has a
nucleus in the center and a cloud of electrons that rotate around it , these electrons are
arranged in well-defined circular orbits around the nucleus.
In his second postulate, Bohr stated that electrons are not at any distance from the nucleus but
are in defined orbits , each with a specific energy level, which are at an exact distance from the
Niels Henrik David Bohr nucleus defined by a quantum number. The energy of the electrons is greater the greater the
(1885-1962), Danish distance from the nucleus.
physicist. Winner of the The third postulate says that when an electron from one orbit passes (jumps) to another, the
Nobel Prize in Physics in difference in energy between the two is emitted in the form of electromagnetic radiation. In the
1992. event that an electron that is in a more external orbit, that is, at a higher energy level, moves to a
more internal orbit, of lower energy, energy is emitted outward in the form of photons . If this
happens in reverse, that is, an electron goes from an internal orbit to a more external orbit,
energy is absorbed.
Although this atomic model is too simplistic to accurately explain many anatomical phenomena ,
it can still be used to describe the basic interactions of interest in nuclear medicine .
Chadwick bombarded a thin sheet of beryllium with alpha particles, the metal
emitted very high energy radiation, similar to Gamma rays.
Later experiments showed that these rays actually consist of a third type of
subatomic particles, which Chadwick called neutrons because they were shown to
be electrically neutral particles with a mass slightly greater than the mass of protons. (1981-1974) English
physicist, Nobel Prize
winner in physics in 1935
Thanks to its discovery, the subatomic particle called the neutron was added to
for the discovery of the
Rutherford's atomic model. neutron.