John Dalton (1766–1844) was born into a modest Quaker family in Cumberland, England, and earned his living for most of his life as a teacher and public lecturer, beginning in his village school...

His father, Joseph Dalton, was a weaver in poor circumstances, who, with his wife (Deborah Greenup), belonged to the Society of Friends; they had three children -- Jonathan, John and Mary.

The role of notation in John Dalton's atomic theory ... It was gentle John Dalton who finally sorted out the rumblings of late 18th-century chemists and gave us a proper atomic theory.

E.C. Patterson, John Dalton and the Atomic Theory, Doubleday and Co, Inc., Garden City, ... H.E. Roscoe, John Dalton and the Rise of Modern Chemistry, MacMillan and Co., New York and London, 1895.

John Dalton, A New System of Chemical Philosophy, 1808) ; ... John Dalton (1766-1844) developed the first useful atomic theory of matter around 1803. In the course of his studies on meteorology,

For other persons named John Dalton, see John Dalton (disambiguation). John Dalton FRS (6 September 1766 – 27 July 1844) was an English chemist, meteorologist and physicist. He is best known for his pioneering work in the development of modern atomic theory, and his research...

The John Rylands Library, Deansgate, houses some of the most significant books and manuscripts ever produced. ... The John Rylands Library, Deansgate

Democritus first suggested the existence of the atom but it took almost two millennia before the atom was placed on a solid foothold as a fundamental chemical object by John Dalton (1766-1844).

John Dalton was born in a small thatched cottage in the village of Eaglesfield, Cumberland, England. That much is certain.

It was in the early 1800s that John Dalton, an observer of weather and discoverer of color blindness among other things, came up with his atomic theory.