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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 38. Chapters: John Dalton, Edmond Halley, Francis Galton, Lewis Fry Richardson, Piers Corbyn, Geoffrey Ingram Taylor, Luke Howard, Lovell Squire, Michael Fish, Thomas Barker, Clare Nasir, Reginald Hawthorn Hooker, George Simpson, Frank Pasquill, Claire Martin, James Glaisher, Clyde Rankin, Francis Ronalds, Bob Johnson, Lucy Verasamy, Dianne Oxberry, George Cowling, Matthew Paul Moyle, Daniel Corbett, Laura Tobin, William Henry Dines, A. Follett Osler, Becky Mantin, Nazaneen Ghaffar, Jack Scott, James Six, G. M. B. Dobson, Napier Shaw, Francis Wilson, Alex Deakin, Steff Gaulter, John Somers Dines, Sarah Cruddas, Heather Stott, Bill Giles, Isobel Lang, Bert Foord, Kaddy Lee-Preston, Suzanne Charlton, Laura Greene, William Radcliffe Birt, Simon King, Elizabeth Saary, Orlando Whistlecraft. Excerpt: John Dalton FRS (6 September 1766 - 27 July 1844) was an English chemist, meteorologist and physicist. He is best known for his pioneering work in the development of modern atomic theory, and his research into colour blindness (sometimes referred to as Daltonism, in his honour). John Dalton was born into a Quaker family at Eaglesfield, near Cockermouth, Cumberland, England. The son of a weaver, he joined his older brother Jonathan at age 15 in running a Quaker school in nearby Kendal. Around 1790 Dalton seems to have considered taking up law or medicine, but his projects were not met with encouragement from his relatives - Dissenters were barred from attending or teaching at English universities - and he remained at Kendal until, in the spring of 1793, he moved to Manchester. Mainly through John Gough, a blind philosopher and polymath from whose informal instruction he owed much of his scientific knowledge, Dalton was appointed teacher of mathematics and natural philosophy at the "New College" in Manchester, a dissenting academy. He remain...
