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Definition of John Dalton
1. Noun. English chemist and physicist who formulated atomic theory and the law of partial pressures; gave the first description of red-green color blindness (1766-1844).
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Literary usage of John Dalton
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1. Journal of the American Chemical Society by American Chemical Society (1895)
"Materials for a history of John Dalton and his contributions to chemistry were
not lacking. WC Henry's "Memoirs" (1854), RA Smith's "Memoir and History of ..."
2. A History of Chemistry by Forris Jewett Moore (1918)
"This is what chemists understand by the Atomic Theory, and its discoverer was
John Dalton. Dalton.—Dalton once had occasion to write a brief account of his ..."
3. The Library of Original Sources: Ideas that Have Influenced Civilization, in edited by Oliver Joseph Thatcher (1915)
"... John Dalton John Dalton was born Sept. 5, 1766, in Cumberland, England, of a
Quaker family. His father was a weaver and his mother helped support the ..."
4. Famous Chemists: The Men and Their Work by William Augustus Tilden (1921)
"This was John Dalton, whose name has been for more than a century associated with
the application of the ... All the changes we can produce John Dalton ..."
5. American State Trials: A Collection of the Important and Interesting by John Davison Lawson, Robert Lorenzo Howard (1914)
"Her crew consisted of Samuel Tulley, mate, John Dalton, Neal, Hopkins and Cummings,
sailors, and John Owen, cook. She arrived safely at Teneriffe on ..."
6. The Writings of George Washington by George Washington (1889)
"TO CAPTAIN John Dalton. SIR, Mr. VERNON, 15 February, 1773. I am obliged to you
for the notice you have given me of an intended meeting of your vestry on ..."
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