JOHN DALTON

HIS LIFE

• John Dalton was a chemist, meteorologist and physicist.
• John did most of his work at Manhester College in Oxford.

WHAT HE DID

• John Dalton was the first man to create the Atomic Model.
• He thought the atom was the smallest possible component of matter.
• He did this in 1808.
• He suggested how atoms acted. He was the first man to explain
• the behaviours of an atom in terms of their measurement and weight.

WHAT HE USED TO DO THIS

• Standard lab equipment
• He was originally observing elements until he came across the atom.
• Manometers for the measurement of gas pressure.
• He discovered what he did only with this standard equipment
• and luck.

WHAT HE DISCOVERED ABOUT ATOMS

• He discovered that all elements were
• made up of atoms.
• He also found out which elements all
• the atoms made

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