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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 following is a list of people who are considered a "father" or "mother" (or "founding father" or "founding mother") of a scientific field.Such people are generally regarded to have made the first significant contributions to and/or delineation of that field; they may also be seen as "a" rather than "the" father or mother of the field.
The bust at the Royal Society of Chemistry in Burlington House. The bronze bust of John Dalton located along the corridor on the first floor of Burlington House, London, was created by Ruby Levick [1] [2] [3] (who also executed the bust of Humphry Davy at Burlington House) and donated to the Chemical Society in 1903 by its former president Sir Thomas Edward Thorpe (1845–1925), [4] as ...
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 1 February 2025. Italian chemist and physicist (1745–1827) For the concept car, see Toyota Alessandro Volta. Count Alessandro Volta ForMemRS Born Alessandro Giuseppe Antonio Anastasio Volta (1745-02-18) 18 February 1745 Como, Duchy of Milan Died 5 March 1827 (1827-03-05) (aged 82) Como, Kingdom of ...
Objections to evolution have been raised since evolutionary ideas came to prominence in the 19th century. When Charles Darwin published his 1859 book On the Origin of Species, his theory of evolution (the idea that species arose through descent with modification from a single common ancestor in a process driven by natural selection) initially met opposition from scientists with different ...
In the early 19th century prior to Darwinism, Jean-Baptiste Lamarck (1744–1829) proposed his theory of the transmutation of species, the first fully formed theory of evolution. In 1858 Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace published a new evolutionary theory, explained in detail in Darwin's On the Origin of Species (1859). Darwin's theory ...
John D'Alton was born in Claremorris, County Mayo, [2] to Joseph D'Alton (d. 1 April 1883) and his wife Mary Brennan, at the height of the Land Wars in Ireland. He was baptised four days later, on 15 October 1882, with Michael and Mary Brennan acting as his godparents. D'Alton's mother had a daughter, Mollie Brennan, from a previous marriage ...
Edward Hitchcock's fold-out paleontological chart in his 1840 Elementary Geology. Although tree-like diagrams have long been used to organise knowledge, and although branching diagrams known as claves ("keys") were omnipresent in eighteenth-century natural history, it appears that the earliest tree diagram of natural order was the 1801 "Arbre botanique" (Botanical Tree) of the French ...