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John Dalton was born on September 5, or 6, 1776, in Eaglesfield, Cumberland in England

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When John Dalton was first born he was born into a Quaker family of many tradesmen.

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In 1793 John Dalton moved to Manchester to become a teacher. He started out as a math teacher. When he was there he brought his meteorologist books with him and many of his friends helped him work on being a meteorologist.

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Quickly after John Dalton started teaching and his friends helped him he published his first his first book called "Meteorological Observations and Essays".

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After John Dalton first published he was chosen to observe various meteorologic phenomena. He upheld the view even though everyone was against it that the atmosphere was a physical mixture made up of 80% nitrogen and 20% oxygen.

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John Dalton was an English meteorologist, and a chemist, also one of the main people who helped discover the modern day Atomic Atom.

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John Dalton's main thing in life was the Atomic theory. He based most of it on Partical pressure where like atoms repel each other.

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John Dalton's atomic theory was not right and it was eventually proven to be wrong. But over time his theory would help other scientist get what was going on and how everything was happening. He helped a Greek philosopher Democritus understand how it worked.

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John Dalton helped them understand the size of the atoms and he also helped them understand the different kinds of matter and how they change. He helped the understand that different elements vary from size and mass.

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Everyone was telling John Dalton that different elements did not vary in size and mass and they were telling him that each element had its own kind of atom. He found out that different chemicals have different chemical compounds.

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Although John Dalton had been a scientist for many years he never did research in the field. He would tell people what had to be done.

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John Dalton did not listen to what other scientist said about fixed proportions and because of that the Law of multiple proportions was made. That is when two elements form more than one compound.

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After the age of 50 John Dalton continued to still try to publish and do his research but after 1838 when his paper was declined and they said it could not be published John Dalton went on his own and published it privately. After that his Atomic theory began to prove worth and its author gained wide spread recognition.

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John Dalton died on July 27, 1844.

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Ross, Sydney. "John Dalton". Encyclopedia Britannica, 23 Jul. 2021, https://www.britannica.com/biography/John-Dalton. Accessed 2 November 2021.