the Dalton Emerging Researcher Prize commemorates the chemist, physicist and meteorologist John Dalton. Born in 1766 to a poor family in Cockermouth, Cumberland, Dalton received his education at a ...

I SHALL be glad if any readers of NATURE can assist me in tracing the present whereabouts (if still in existence) of three original photographs of Dr. John Dalton. These were taken in Manchester ...

John Dalton was born in 1766 in Cumbria ... His atomic theory now underpins the whole of modern chemistry and his work on colour blindness inspired many further studies. The scientist will ...