__1803: __English chemist-physicist John Dalton starts using symbols to represent the atoms of different elements. Dalton, considered the father of modern atomic theory, made a logbook entry that day ...

Robyn Williams: This year marks the 200th anniversary of a paper which revolutionised chemistry. It was written by a man so modest and thrifty that few may know his name today. John Dalton is the ...

Visual metaphors are often essential in science when you can't see what you're studying. The English chemist John Dalton, born 250 years ago, illustrated his atomic theory using wooden spheres ...

Colophon: T. Sowler and Sons, Printers, Manchester. Includes index. Alphabetical list of the members of the Literary and Philosophical Society of Manchester: p. [309]-316. siris_sil_367743 ...

THIS volume constitutes the latest addition to the series of “English Men of Science ” now in course of publication by Messrs. J. M. Dent and Co., and is a concise and well-written account of the ...