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Chemistry would not be where it is today without the discoveries and influences of British chemist John Dalton. Dalton helped to advance studies of meteorology, color blindness, atomic theory, and forever changed chemistry and science as a whole. His theories set the foundation of modern chemistry. John Dalton was born in Eaglesfield, England on September 6, 1766. Dalton’s early life began in a Quaker home, where he lived with his parents Joseph and Deborah. He had two siblings: Jonathan and Mary. His father Joseph was a weaver who raised him under the Quaker faith, and his father educated him early on, along with John Fletcher, the teacher of the Eaglesfield Quakers’ school. He took an avid interest in weather and science at a young age. …show more content…

Dalton’s early and persistent education, along with the help of John Fletcher, led him to start teaching at the Quakers’ school after Fletcher’s retirement. His career as a teacher was ended after two years due to very low pay, only about five shillings a week. In 1780, two years after teaching at the school, he started working on a farm. Also at this time, however, he was learning mathematics from Elihu Robinson. This, in turn, led to Dalton pursuing another teaching career alongside his cousin George Bewley, who taught at a school in Kendal. During his time in Kendal, Dalton came up with several solutions and theories that he implemented into the Gentlemen’s and Ladies’ Diaries. He also added over two hundred thousand observations in a meteorological diary he kept in 1787. (nndb.com, John Dalton, paragraph …show more content…

As for what he did with these studies, he published Meteorological Observations and Essays in 1793 and Elements of English Grammar in 1801. Dalton had proved himself to be a knowledgeable and brilliant philosopher and jack of all trades, so he was inducted into the Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society. Dalton, being colorblind himself, wrote a piece on color blindness for the Society and presented it, making history already in the name of science. Dalton described his color blindness in his piece, stating, "that part of the image which others call red appears to me little more than a shade or defect of light; after that the orange, yellow and green seem one color which, descends pretty uniformly from an intense to a rare yellow, making what I should call different shades of yellow." This in itself a worthy achievement, Dalton also went on to study light, gases, liquids, temperature, and more. (nndb.com, John Dalton, paragraph 2; Gale, Scientists: Their Lives and Works, paragraph

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