__1803: __English chemist-physicist John Dalton starts using symbols to represent the atoms of different elements. Dalton, considered the father of modern atomic theory, made a logbook entry that day ...

IN a recent review 1 of Prof. Soddy's book, “The Story of Atomic Energy” (London, 1949), Prof. Paneth directs attention to a part of the book in which “credit is given not to John Dalton but to ...

Robyn Williams: This year marks the 200th anniversary of a paper which revolutionised chemistry. It was written by a man so modest and thrifty that few may know his name today. John Dalton is the ...

Colophon: T. Sowler and Sons, Printers, Manchester. Includes index. Alphabetical list of the members of the Literary and Philosophical Society of Manchester: p. [309 ...

WITHIN the last ten years chemistry has completely emancipated itself from a type of metaphysical obscurantism which seems to be invading physics in another disguise. Although a scientific atomic ...