Chemistry Timeline Exploration

Chemistry Timeline Exploration

Read each question carefully and provide your best answer based on your knowledge of the history of chemistry. Some questions may require you to recall specific scientists or discoveries.

1. Who is often credited as the 'Father of Modern Chemistry' for his work on the law of conservation of mass and the naming of oxygen and hydrogen?

2. The discovery of the electron by J.J. Thomson led to the development of which atomic model?

3. The alchemists' main goal was to turn base metals into  , a pursuit that laid some groundwork for modern chemistry.

4. Dmitri Mendeleev organized the elements based on their atomic mass and recurring chemical properties, leading to the creation of the first functional  .

5. Robert Boyle proposed that elements were composed of tiny, indivisible particles called atoms.

6. Marie Curie was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize and the only person to win Nobel Prizes in two different scientific fields (Physics and Chemistry).

7. Briefly explain the significance of the Phlogiston theory in the history of chemistry, and why it was eventually disproven.

8. Describe Ernest Rutherford's gold foil experiment and what it revealed about the structure of the atom.

Match each scientist with their key contribution.