Accomplishments of John Dalton
Dalton revived the atomic theory. He made the first volume of his New System of Chemical Philosophy. He already knew the concept to a table of atomic weights, the absorption of gases, and in developing his famous law of partial pressures, known also as Dalton's law. His attraction to weather conditions led him to keep daily records from 1787 and to write Meteorological Observations and Essays. Dalton investigated the condition of color blindness. Which he had himself. It is also known as Daltonism. From 1793 he taught mathematics and physical sciences at New College, Manchester. He was a member of the Royal Society and in 1825 received its medal for his work on the atomic theory. Without Dalton's work, Chemistry as we know it today may not have exsisted.