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Dalton, John was born in Eaglesfield, in 1766 and died today 1844. Dalton was a British chemist and physicist, who developed the atomic theory of matter on which modern physical science was founded. He began a series of meteorological observati ....

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... of Chemical Philosophy, in which he listed the atomic weights of a number of known elements, relative to the weight of hydrogen. His weights were not entirely accurate though , but they formed the basis for the modern periodic table of the elements. Dalton arrived at his atomic theory through a study of the physical properties of air and other gases. English scientist. He taught mathematics and physical sciences at New College, Manchester. Dalton revived the atomic theory of matter (see ATOM), which he applied to a table of atomic weights and used in developing his law of partial pressures (Dalton's law). He was color-blind and studied that ...