The document traces the historical development of atomic models from ancient Greek philosophers Democritus and Leucippus proposing the first idea of atoms, to J.J. Thomson discovering the electron in 1903 and proposing atoms have a positively-charged sphere with electrons embedded, to Rutherford discovering the proton in 1911 and proving atoms have a nucleus, to Bohr solving problems with his 1913 model of electrons moving in shells around the nucleus, to Chadwick discovering the neutron in 1932 and establishing the modern nuclear model of the atom with protons and neutrons in the nucleus surrounded by electrons.