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Birth
Born in Eaglesfield, Cumberland, England. -
Dalton started to keep a journal.
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Wrote a book on Meteorological observations.
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First person to describe color blindness.
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Dalton became a secretary at Manchester Library and Philosophical Society
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After his teaching career he became a chemist and a physicist.(date not accurate)
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Atomic weight.
Dalton proceeded to print his first published table of relative atomic weights. Dalton provided no indication in this first paper how he had arrived at these numbers. However, in his laboratory notebook under the date 6 September 1803[4] there appears a list in which he sets out the relative weights of the atoms of a number of elements, derived from analysis of water, ammonia, carbon dioxide, etc. by chemists of the time. -
First proposed "Dalton's Law."
He made his first announcement that hisd discovery. -
Went to Paris to discuss his ideas with other men of science from that period.
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First Stroke.
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Second Stroke
Dalton suffered a second stroke in 1838 left him with a speech impediment, though he remained able to do experiments -
Memory
In 1840 a paper on the phosphates and arsenates, often regarded as a weaker work, was refused by the Royal Society, and he was so incensed that he published it himself. He took the same course soon afterwards with four other papers, two of which (On the quantity of acids, bases and salts in different varieties of salts and On a new and easy method of analysing sugar) contain his discovery, regarded by him as second in importance only to the atomic theory, that certain anhydrates, when dissolved -
Third Stroke
In May 1844 he had yet another stroke; on 26 July he recorded with trembling hand his last meteorological observation. -
Death
He died.