The document traces the history of atomic theory from Democritus' idea of indivisible atoms in 460 BC to Bohr's model of electrons orbiting the nucleus in 1913. Key developments included Dalton suggesting atoms were tiny spheres in 1808, Thompson discovering the electron in 1898 and proposing the plum pudding model, and Rutherford deducing the nucleus from deflection experiments in 1910. Bohr later refined Rutherford's model by establishing electrons in distinct orbitals around the nucleus.