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John Dalton FRS (/ ˈ d ɔː l t ən /; 5 or 6 September 1766 – 27 July 1844) was an English chemist, physicist and meteorologist. [1] He introduced the atomic theory into chemistry.
The son of the Rev. John Dalton, rector of Dean, Cumberland, he was born there; Richard Dalton was his brother. He received his school education at Lowther, Westmorland, and when sixteen years old was sent to The Queen's College, Oxford, entering the college as batler 12 October 1725, being elected taberdar 2 November 1730, and taking the degree of B.A. on 20 November 1730.
John Dalton is an American author. His first novel, Heaven Lake won the 2005 Sue Kaufman Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters [ 1 ] and the 2004 Barnes & Noble Discover Award in Fiction.
Heaven Lake is the debut novel of American author John Dalton published in 2004. It won both the 2005 Sue Kaufman Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters [1] and the 2004 Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Award in Fiction. [2]
John Harold Dalton FRAIA (1927–2007) was an English Australian architect, writer, editor and artist.. Dalton's body of work includes a number of domestic and commercial projects located in Queensland, Australia, where his architectural practice was established.
Dalton thought that water was a "binary compound", i.e. one hydrogen atom and one oxygen atom. Dalton did not know that in their natural gaseous state, the ultimate particles of oxygen, nitrogen, and hydrogen exist in pairs (O 2, N 2, and H 2). Nor was he aware of valencies. These properties of atoms were discovered later in the 19th century.
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John Dalton (1814–1874) was an ... Life. Dalton was of Irish parentage, and passed the early years of his life at Coventry. ... Works by John Dalton at LibriVox ...