John Dalton and the Atomic Theory

John Dalton and the Atomic Theory
Author: Marylou Kjelle
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2005
Genre: Atomic theory
ISBN: 9781584153085

Profiles the life and work of John Dalton and his contribution to the fields of chemistry and physics with his atomic theory.

John Dalton

John Dalton
Author: R. M. Wenley
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Total Pages: 78
Release: 2016-06-08
Genre:
ISBN: 9781533692559

John Dalton was an English scientist known for his famous work in the development of modern atomic theory; and his research on color-blindness (daltonism), in which the affected person is unable to distinguish between red and green.

Chemistry

Chemistry
Author: Charles E. Mortimer
Publisher:
Total Pages: 780
Release: 1975
Genre: Science
ISBN:

Atoms and Elements

Atoms and Elements
Author: David M. Knight
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 172
Release: 2018-12-12
Genre: History
ISBN: 0429685971

First published in 1967. The impression is sometimes given that the Atomic Theory was revived in the early years of the nineteenth century by John Dalton, and that continuously from then on it has played a vital role in chemistry. The aim of this study is to revise this over-simplified picture. Atomic explanations seemed to chemists to go beyond the facts, to fail to lend themselves to mathematical expression, and to deny the ultimate simplicity and unity of all matter. Most, therefore, rejected them. Meanwhile, physicists were developing a whole range of atomic theories to explain the physical properties of bodies in terms of very simple atoms or particles. During the last thirty years of the century the position changed, as physicists and chemists came to agree on a common atomic theory. But the last prominent opponents of atomism were not converted until the early years of the twentieth century, by which time studies of radioactivity had made it clear that the billiard-ball Daltonian atom must, in any case, be abandoned.