JOHN DALTON

BACKGROUND INFORMATION

• Date of Birth: September 6, 1766
• Place of Birth: Eaglesfield, Cumbria, United Kingdom
• Date of Death: July 27, 1844 in Manchester, United Kingdom
• Field of Science: Meteorologist, Educator, Scholar, Chemist, Scientist, And Journalist

OTHER BACKGROUND INFORMATION

• He identified the hereditary nature of the red-green color blindness.
• In 1803 he revealed the concept of Dalton's Law of Partial Pressures.

CHILDHOOD

• Dalton longed for a formal education, but his family was very poor.
• It was clear that he would need to help out with the family finances from a young age.
• His parents were very poor when he was a child.
• John got his early education from his dad.
• John Dalton was born color blind

MORE INFORMATION

• Dalton's parents were very poor
• He got his early education from his father
• Dalton was colored blind
• He made the atomic theory and atomic model

EDUCATION

• He attended a Quaker school in the village of Cumberland,England
• Dalton was just 12 years old, he started teaching there. At 14 he worked a year working as a farmhand
• But he decided to return to teaching this time as an assistant at a Quaker boarding school in Kendal.
• He got his early education from his father
• At 14 yrs. old he spent a year as a farmhand but return to teaching as an assistant at a Quaker boarding school in Kendal.

SCIENCE CAREER

• Dalton's interest in the atmosphere pressures eventually led him a closer examination of gases.
• Dalton identified the hereditary nature of red-green color blindness.
• In 1803 he revealed the concept of Dalton's law of practical pressures.
• He made the atomic theory and the atomic model being colored blind.
• In 1800's he was the first scientist to explain the behavior of atoms in terms of the measurements of weight.

CHALLENGES/ DIFFICULTIES

• John Dalton and his brother were both born colored blind.
• John Dalton researched color blindness a topic with which he was familiar with.
• He found out it was hereditary.

WHAT DID THE WORLD BENEFIT FROM HIS WORK

• He made the atomic theory and the atomic model to explain how and why elements would combine with one another in fixed ratios and sometimes also in multiples of those ratios.
• Dalton formulated his atomic theory.

WE'RE THEY RECOGNIZED FOR THEIR WORK

• Yes, he was because if we didn't know his atomic theory and atomic model we wouldn't know anything.
• We would be clueless without his work