Dalton’s Atomic Theory: British physicist, chemist, and meteorologist John Dalton proposed Dalton’s atomic theory in the year 1808. This was the first theory that studied the matter in the form of ...

IN the review of “A New View of the Origin of Dalton's Atomic Theory,” published in your issue of April 16, your reviewer, in summing up the evidence as to the origin of the atomic theory, makes an ...

At a stroke, his new theory of atoms crushed the alchemists and their magic formulas for gold. He had set chemistry on the path to becoming a modern science. "The crucial step was to write down ...

THE origin of the former of these two books is well explained in the following passage from the short introduction: A New View of the Origin of Dalton's Atomic Theory: a Contribution to Chemical ...