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...

The English chemist John Dalton (1766-1844) provided the beginnings of the development of a scientific atomic theory, thus facilitating the development of chemistry as a separate science. His contributions to physics, particularly to meteorology, were...