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  • he didnt discover atoms
  • he discovered the nucleus and electrons though
  • he did this with his gold goil experiment
  • technically the first person known to have a therory about atoms was democritus whic was sometime BCE
  • democritus' theory was not accepted until sometime in the 1800s by John Dalton who made a very basic model
  • then JJ Thompson discovered protons and electrons
  • then rutherford made his discoveries
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