M2 Quiz info Flashcards
*First person to suspect that everything is composed of “atomos”
Democritus
Who Discovered that “Atoms can be neither created nor destroyed by chemical reactions.”
John Dalton
Who Discovered
Electrons and its negative charge
The “Plum Pudding” model of an atom.
Joseph John (J.J.) Thomson
Who model was the standard model of the atom for many years as science courses taught it extensively.
Neils Bohr
(Bohr Model)
Fermions
*The Building blocks of Matter
*Consist of subatomic particles such as quarks, electrons, positrons, protons, and neutrinos,
Bosons
*The carriers of the strong force
*Consist of subatomic particles such as gluons, photons, and Higgs boson.
Who “accidentally discovered radioactivity in an experiment he was conducting with a crystal and a photographic plate.” (Uranium)
Antoine Henri Becquerel
Who “used the term “radioactivity” to describe the energy emissions from the uranium.”
Pierre Curie & Marie Curie
(The Curies)
*furthered discoveries by bombarding a piece of gold foil with alpha particles from a radioactive source.
*Found the dense area and named it the nucleus
Ernest Rutherford
The “Nuclear process that allows us to produce the energy needed to propel ships and to generate electricity for commercial and residential use”
Fission
Who discovered Fission?
Otto Hahn and Fritz Strassmann
(Hahn & Strassmann)
Albert Einstein’s equation
E=mc2
Who “build the world’s first nuclear reactor”
Enrico Fermi
Who “advocate tenaciously within the United States government to begin developing a nuclear powered submarine for the U.S. Navy.”
Admiral Hyman G. Rickover
Who was the Apprentice school graduate selected to work in the nuclear program and later on became VP of Nuclear Power
Richard “Dick” Broad.
Top Number
Atomic Number / Proton number
Middle letters
Element symbol
Bottom number
Atomic mass in AMU
