Sara Montesdeoca Len

Carla Vega Rodrguez

Nuria Armas Ortiz
Montse Guedes Ayala
Who was him?
First Years
The Daltonism
Atomic Theory
The five principals points of the atomic theory
Daltons Theory
Daltons Mistakes



John Dalton was an English chemist,
meteorologist and physicist.
He was born the 6
th
September of 1766, in
Cumberland (United Kingdom), and he died
the 27
th
July of 1844.

John Dalton was a weavers son, when he was 15 years old he founded with his
oldest brother a school near Kendal. Dalton wanted to study medicine or law, but
he didnt found support in his family, thats why he stayed in Kendal. Years later he
moved to Manchester and there, John Goungh, a blind philosophy helped Dalton
to learn all that he knew. He was appointed mathematic and natural philosophy on
the <<New School>> Manchester, a religious academy. In 1800 he was dismissed
because the academy had a bad economic situation, so he started a new career
like a private teacher.
During his years in Kendal, Dalton worked on the Gentlemens and Ladies Diaries
almanac answering questions and problems and later he started to write a
meteorology diary where he wrote down more than 200 000 observations. Also he
rediscover the atmospheric circulation theory, now knowledge by the Hadley cell.


It was the first time that Dalton not only
discovered the fact of the lack of color perception
in people, but also gave a causal explanation to
the phenomenon. Although he did a theory of his
own visual problem which people called the
daltonism.
Dalton left instruction that his eyes were
preserved, which has allowed an AND published
on 1995 that showed that Dalton had a strange
color blindness, the deuteranophia.


The most important of all the investigation of
Dalton was the atomic theory, wich is
associated to his name. Dalton was the first in
publish a table of the relatives atomics weight.
Six elements appear on this table: hydrogen,
oxygen, nitrogen, carbon, sulfur and
phosphorus.


The elements are formed of small particles called atoms
All the atoms of a determinate element are similar
The atoms of an element are diferents of the any other
element
The atoms of an element can combine with the atoms of
other elements to formed chemical compound.
The atoms cant create and separate particles smaller, or
destroy in the chemist process.
This was just an assumption derived from faith in the
simplicity of nature. It wasnt proof of disposition of the
scientific to deduce how many atoms of each elements
which combine to form molecules of compound.
Dalton took as a point of start a series of
experimental evidences knowledge in his time:
The main substances cant decompounds.
The simples or the compounds substances have
always the same characteristics
The elements dont disappear when they formed
a compound
The mass is keep it on the chemical reaction
The elements proportions formed a constant
compound.

The blindness of some colors witch Dalton
had, called today like daltonism, played a trick
with him. At the moment of experiment his
theories on the laboratory, rarely can check it
because he confused the radioactive test
tubes. However, he continued defend his
theories on the paper.