John Dalton was an amazing chemist that stands out from many. He was born September 6th, 1766. His father was Joseph Dalton who was married to Deborah Greenup. They had three children together whose names were Jonathan, John, and Mary. Dalton and his brother were born colorblind. He was a brilliant scientist who created Dalton’s Law and the Atomic Theory. He was born into a Quaker family in Cumberland, England. Where he lived there most of his life. Dalton became a teacher at the age of twelve. He stopped for a year at age fourteen to help out around the farm.. He taught at Kendal in a small Quaker village until he was offered another teaching job in Manchester. (Biography. John Dalton) While living in Manchester, he joined the Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society. On the first day, they were one of the first people to grant him access to a laboratory. The first paper that he wrote for this society was on color blindness, which is when Dalton coined the term “Daltonism.” Color blindness is when a person lacks color perception, which is caused by discoloration of the iris. In 1817, Dalton became the president of the Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society. John Dalton is considered to be the father of atomic theory. He contributed not only a better understanding of atoms and the weather; he made up theories that scientists use everyday. (Famous People. John Dalton) John Dalton created The Atomic theory. The Atomic Theory is every form of matter, whether gas, solid, or solid, is made up of individual particles. Dalton, himself, thought that only atoms of the same density, size and mixture were able to cause pressure between them. (Biography. John Dalton) “In all chemical investigations, it has justly been considered an important object to ascertain the relative weights of the samples which constitute a compound. But unfortunately the enquiry has terminated here; whereas from the relative weights in the mass, the r