John Dalton is the father of chemistry ... I expect JJ Thompson's experiments with cathode rays and his demonstration of the electron as a particle and Rutherford's experiments on atomic structure ...

Dalton would have approved. He was for most of his own life a teacher. At the tender age of just 12, he had already taken over the schooling of pupils in his home village in Cumberland. "John Dalton ...

John Dalton was born in 1766 in Cumbria ... They do this by carrying out an experiment (or making observations) to collect evidence. The scientist then analyses the evidence and uses it to ...

The scientist John Dalton carried out a series of experiments. He concluded that all matter was made of tiny particles called atoms. He suggested that an atom was a tiny solid ball. He published ...