The Evolution of Bonding Theory
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Lavoisier publishes his Traité élémentaire de chimie.  

1803

Berzelius advances his electrochemical theory of Dualism.   1828
After studying substituted organics, Dumas rejects dualistic theories   1840's
Frankland publishes a paper which leads to the concept of valence
 


1789

Dalton records the first table of relative atomic weights in his notebook.  
1812
Dumas and Boullay advance first radical theory of organic compounds.  
1838
Period of chaos in chemistry.  
1852

 

Kekulé proposes the tetrahedral carbon atom that can link with other carbon atoms.   1869
Werner proposes new structures for coordination compounds.   1897
Rutherford proposes the nuclear model for the atom.   1913
Lewis's book, Valence and the Structure of Atoms and Molecules is published.
 
1858
Mendeleev publishes his first Periodic Table.  
1893
Thomson discovers the electron.  
1911
Bohr proposes the planetary model for the hydrogen atom.  
1923