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| | Encyclopedia article on John Dalton [EncycloZine] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10) |
 | | John Dalton (September 6, 1766–July 27, 1844) was a British chemist and physicist, born at Eaglesfield, near Cockermouth in Cumberland. |
 | | Dalton received his early education from his father and from John Fletcher, a teacher of the Quaker school at Cumberland, on whose retirement in 1778 he himself started teaching. |
 | | Many of Dalton's ideas were acquired from other chemists at the time such as Lavoisier and Higgins, however he was the first to put the ideas into a universal law of atomic theory, undoubtedly his greatest achievement. |
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