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John Dalton
British chemist and mathematician (1766–1844)
Details
- Instance of
- human
- Born
- 6 September 1766
- Died
- 27 July 1844
- Place of birth
- Cumberland
- Place of death
- Manchester
- Sex or gender
- male
- Given name
- John
- Family name
- Dalton
- Father
- Joseph Dalton
- Mother
- Deborah Greenup
- Field of work
- chemistry, physics, meteorology
- Occupation
- physicist, mathematician, meteorologist, chemist, botanist, naturalist
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
- Native language
- English
- described by source
- Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1969–1978), Dictionary of National Biography, 1885–1900, Encyclopedic Lexicon, Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition, Georgian Soviet Encyclopedia, BEIC Digital Library, The Nuttall Encyclopædia, Alumni Oxonienses: The Members of the University of Oxford, 1715–1886, Granat Encyclopedic Dictionary, Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, vol. 3
- educated at
- Harris Manchester College
- employer
- University of Oxford
- has works in the collection
- Biblioteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes
- influenced by
- John Gough
- interested in
- color vision
- medical condition
- color blindness
- member of
- Royal Society, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences, French Academy of Sciences, Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society
- name in native language
- John Dalton Greenup
- notable work
- History of atomic theory, dalton, color blindness, law of multiple proportions, Dalton's law, A New System of Chemical Philosophy
- place of burial
- Ardwick Cemetery
- student
- James Prescott Joule
- student of
- John Gough
- topic's main category
- Category:John Dalton
- writing language
- English
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