John Dalton Research Paper

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Introduction
John Dalton was an meteorologist, physicist, and was best know as a English chemist. Also He was best known for proposing the modern atomic theory and for his research into color blindness, sometimes referred to as Daltonism in his honor.

1. “Berzelius' symbols are horrifying. A young student in chemistry might as soon learn Hebrew as make himself acquainted with them.”
2. “It's the right idea, but not the right time.”
3. “This paper will no doubt be found interesting by those who take an interest in it.” - Quotes 1,2, and 3 are from John Dalton.

John Dalton was born on September 6, 1766, in Eaglesfield, England. Dalton study the genetics of red-green color blindness and founded the concept of Dalton’s Law of Partial Pressures. …show more content…

his brother and him were both born color-blind. Dalton's father earned a good amount of income but not the very best as a handloom weaver. When Dalton was a child, he was eager for a formal education, but his family couldn’t afford it because they were very poor and it was expensive. So they he knew that he had to help out his family with their finances at a young age.

After going to a Quaker school in Cumberland, when he was 12, he started to teach there. At 14, he worked as a farmhand for about a year, but he wanted to returned as a teacher. Once he returned, he was an aide at a Quaker boarding school in Kendal for four years, then he was promoted to principal of the school. He was a principal there for 7 years, which was 1793, at which time he became a philosophy and a math tutor at the New College in Manchester. During the New College, Dalton joined the Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society, which granted Dalton access to laboratory facilities. Daltons first research project pursued his great interest in meteorology by keeping daily logs of the weather, paying special attention to details such as wind velocity and barometric pressure—a habit Dalton would continue all of his life. His research findings on atmospheric pressure were published in his first book, Meteorological Findings, the year he arrived in …show more content…

The condition had affected both him and his brother since birth, Dalton theorized that it must be an genetic thing that ran in his family. Dalton tested his theory to be true when genetic analysis of his own eye tissue showed that he was missing the photoreceptor for perceiving the color green. The result of this experiment, contributions to the understanding of red-green color blindness or also called, "Daltonism."
Dalton's passion in atmospheric pressures eventually led him to a closer examination of gases. While observing and recording data about the nature and chemical makeup of air in the early 1800s, Dalton learned that it was not a chemical solvent like other scientists had believed but Instead it was a mechanical system composed of small individual particles that used pressure applied by each gas

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