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John Dalton

1766 - 1844

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John Dalton (; 5 or 6 September 1766 – 27 July 1844) was an English chemist, physicist and meteorologist. He introduced the atomic theory into chemistry. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of John Dalton has received more than 4,102,428 page views. His biography is available in 102 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 100 in 2019). John Dalton is the 5th most popular chemist, the 43rd most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 34th in 2019) and the most popular British Chemist.

John Dalton is most famous for his atomic theory. He believed that all matter was made up of tiny particles called atoms. He also believed that atoms were indivisible and that they were not created or destroyed.

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Among chemists, John Dalton ranks 5 out of 602. Before him are Alfred Nobel, Louis Pasteur, Dmitri Mendeleev, and Antoine Lavoisier. After him are Irène Joliot-Curie, Robert Boyle, Amedeo Avogadro, Jabir ibn Hayyan, Jöns Jacob Berzelius, Svante Arrhenius, and Fritz Haber.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1766, John Dalton ranks 1. After him are Thomas Robert Malthus, Joseph Radetzky von Radetz, Germaine de Staël, Emmanuel de Grouchy, marquis de Grouchy, Armand-Emmanuel de Vignerot du Plessis, Duc de Richelieu, Nikolay Karamzin, Johanna Schopenhauer, Charlotte, Princess Royal, José Gaspar Rodríguez de Francia, Franz Xaver Süssmayr, and Rodolphe Kreutzer. Among people deceased in 1844, John Dalton ranks 1. After him are Joseph Smith, Charles XIV John of Sweden, Joseph Bonaparte, Louis Antoine, Duke of Angoulême, Bertel Thorvaldsen, Franz Xaver Wolfgang Mozart, Ivan Krylov, Ernest I, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, Charles Nodier, and Flora Tristan.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, John Dalton ranks 43 out of 8,785. Before him are David Hume (1711), Mary I of England (1516), John Maynard Keynes (1883), Alfred Hitchcock (1899), John Lennon (1940), and John Major (1943). After him are Bertrand Russell (1872), Arthur Conan Doyle (1859), David Ricardo (1772), Cecil Rhodes (1853), Richard Burton (1925), and Sean Connery (1930).

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Among CHEMISTS In United Kingdom

Among chemists born in United Kingdom, John Dalton ranks 1. After him are William Ramsay (1852), Humphry Davy (1778), Frederick Sanger (1918), Arthur Harden (1865), Frederick Soddy (1877), Norman Haworth (1883), Francis William Aston (1877), William Crookes (1832), Henry Hallett Dale (1875), Frederick Gowland Hopkins (1861), and Robert Robinson (1886).

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