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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.
Dorothy Hodgkin, Dalton Medallist John Dalton by Thomas Phillips, National Portrait Gallery, London (1835). It was established in February 1781, as the Literary and Philosophical Society of Manchester, [3] by Thomas Percival, Thomas Barnes, Thomas Henry, Thomas Butterworth Bayley and others. [4]
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. [2] Dalton grew up near St. Louis, Missouri, as the youngest of seven children. [3]
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]
The Dalton minimum in the 400-year history of sunspot numbers. The Dalton Minimum was a period of low sunspot count, representing low solar activity, named after the English meteorologist John Dalton, lasting from about 1790 to 1830 [1] or 1796 to 1820, [2] corresponding to the period solar cycle 4 to solar cycle 7.
John Dalton was educated at Cheshunt Secondary Modern School at the same time as Harry Webb (who later found fame as Cliff Richard).Dalton's desire was to be a full-time musician, and in 1959 he joined Danny King and the Bluejacks as bass guitarist (although he claimed in a 2009 interview, [2] that he could not play a note when he joined).
The Inverted Forest is the second novel by Missourian author John Dalton published in 2011 by Scribner. It was on the Beach Read list of New York Magazine ' s summer guide. [ 1 ] The storyline based in part on Dalton's own experience as a counsellor at Camp Don Bosco in Hillsboro, Missouri , in the 1980s.