Essay On John Dalton

John Dalton was an English chemist, physicst and meterologist. Might be familiar with "Daltons Law of Partial Pressures" which is a law still used today, or "Daltonism" also reffered to as color blindness. Dalton was born in Eaglesfield, England on September 6th, 1766. He lived a great life until his death on July 27, 1844 as he died of a stroke in Manchester, England. John Dalton was born into a strong Quaker family (family thats known as "Religious society of friends". John had 2 survivng siblings, both he and his brother were born color blind. Daltons dad made a living as a handloom weaver while earning a modest income. Dalton had to help out with family finances from a very young age, from the effect of his family being very poor. Dalton started off at a Quaker school in his town in Cumberland, England. When John was only 12 years old, he started teaching at the same school. Then age 14 came along and he decided to go work as a farmhand, but he didnt stay with it long, he found himself right back to teaching. Dalton did not return to the school he started, he transferred his teaching skills to a Quaker boarding school in Kendal, England as an assistant. It only took 4 years before Dalton became principle of the school. Stayed until 1793 at which he became a tutor of the subjects, math and philosophy at the new college in Manchester. While at this new college, he joined Literary and Philosophical Society. His first …show more content…
We all are aware of John Dalton and his brothers case of color blindness, Dalton experimented with it for awile and proved his theory which was that color blindness is hereditary when genetic analysis of his own eye tissue showed that John Dalton was short handed of the photoreceptor for seeing the color of green. As an answer of the contributions of "red-green color blindness" this condition today is called