The document summarizes the development of atomic theory over time from ancient Greek philosophers to modern theory. It describes the key contributors and their models including: - Democritus' theory that all matter is made of indivisible atoms that are in constant motion and join together to form different materials. - John Dalton's atomic theory that atoms are indivisible, indestructible particles that combine to form compounds and atoms of the same element have the same mass. - J.J. Thomson's "plum pudding" model which proposed that atoms contain positively charged matter with negative electrons mixed in. - Ernest Rutherford's discovery of the nucleus and nuclear model of the atom with electrons orbiting