Although he dabbled in meteorology and studied color blindness, the contribution for which Dalton is most famous, without question, is his atomic theory and the list of atomic weights for the known elements that he created. Dalton was born on...

Although he dabbled in meteorology and studied color-blindness, the contribution for which Dalton is most famous, without question, is his atomic theory and the list of atomic weights for the known elements that he created. Dalton was born on...

Dalton was born on approximately September 5, 1766, in Eaglesfield, England. Since his Quaker parents did not register his birth officially, no one knows his exact birth date. Strongly influenced by his Quaker faith, Dalton grew up in modest...

1766-1844 English Chemist, Physicist and Meteorologist John Dalton proposed the atomic theory of matter as a result of his investigations of the atmosphere. By viewing matter as made up of indivisible particles each with their own particular weight,...

1766-1844 English chemist who established the modern theory of the atom. Dalton formulated the theory in order to explain chemical reactions. Although both Dalton and the ancient Greeks considered the atom (taken from the Greek word for...

As the nineteenth century dawned a significant problem that remained in the chemical sciences was the ultimate nature of matter. Was matter continuous and therefore had no finer structure or was it discontinuous and thus made of tiny particles? The...

John Dalton (September 6, 1766 – July 27, 1844) was an English chemist, meteorologist and physicist, born at Eaglesfield, near Cockermouth in Cumbria. He is best known for his pioneering work in the development of modern atomic theory, and his...

John Dalton's eyeball is going on show this week. Along with a lock of his hair and the charred remains of his notebooks, this remnant of the father of atomic theory will be on display until 25 June at the library of the...

Here's a saga that gives us the drug war at its ripest malevolence. It concerns John Dalton, resident for the past twenty-one months at the federal detention center in Dublin, California, a few miles east of the Lawrence Livermore Labs. All the...

A biography of John Dalton and his contributions to the science of chemistry.

A description of the life of chemist and physicist John Dalton (1766-1844). Dalton is known as the father of chemistry, as his works provide the foundation for our understanding of chemistry. He is also known for his contributions to modern-day atomic theory.