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John Dalton

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British chemist and mathematician (1766–1844)

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John Dalton was a British chemist and mathematician who lived from 1766 to 1844 and made groundbreaking contributions to our understanding of matter. His work laid the foundation for modern atomic theory, fundamentally changing how scientists think about the composition of substances.

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Origin: Italy
Active from: 1967
Active to: 1979

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“1. Small particles called atoms exist and compose all matter; 2. They are indivisible and indestructible; 3. Atoms of the same chemical element have the same chemical properties and do not transmute or change into different elements.”
“When we attempt to conceive the number of particles in an atmosphere, it is somewhat like attempting to conceive the number of stars in the universe; we are confounded with the thought. But if we limit the subject, by taking a given volume of any gas, we seem persuaded that, let the divisions be ever so minute, the number of particles must be finite; just as in a given space of the universe, the number of stars and planets cannot be infinite.”
“Now it is one great object of this work, to shew the importance and advantage of ascertaining the relative weights of the ultimate particles, both of simple and compound bodies, the number of simple elementary particles which constitute one compound particle, and the number of less compound particles which enter into the formation of one more compound particle.”

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Image: John Dalton. Line engraving by W. H. Worthington, 1823, afte Wellcome V0006489.jpg

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date of birth: 1766-09-06
date of death: 1844-07-27
name in native language: John Dalton Greenup
Commons Creator page: John Dalton
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John Dalton (/ˈdɔːltən/; 5 or 6 September 1766 – 27 July 1844) was an English chemist, physicist, and meteorologist whose work laid the foundations of modern atomic theory and stoichiometric chemistry. Building on earlier ideas about the indivisibility of matter and his own precise measurements of combining ratios, Dalton proposed that each chemical element consists of identical atoms of characteristic weight, and that compounds are formed when atoms of different elements combine in fixed whole-number proportions. His A New System of Chemical Philosophy (1808) presented a coherent atomic model, supplied relative atomic weights and symbolic notation, and established the quantitative framework that shaped nineteenth-century chemistry and remains the basis of modern chemical thought.

Dalton was also a pioneering meteorologist and physicist, keeping daily weather observations for over fifty years, formulating the first empirical law of partial pressures (later known as Dalton’s Law), and studying the behavior of gases through his work on vapor pressure and gas solubility. His investigations into his own color blindness led to the first scientific description of the condition—still called Daltonism in several languages—and helped establish experimental methods for linking perception with physiology. Elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1822 and awarded its Royal Medal in 1826, Dalton became the first British scientist to develop a quantitative atomic theory and one of the key figures in the transition of chemistry from a qualitative to a mathematical science.