Dalton, John education

James Joule was horn in Salford, near Manchester, England, on Ueceniher 24, 1818. Ele was the second son of a wealthy brewery owner and was educated at home by private tutors. For three years he was fortunate enough to have the eminent British chemist, John Dalton as his chemisti y teacher. He never attended a university as a consequence, while he was... 

I he observations of Lavoisier, Proust, and others led John Dalton (1766— 1 1844), a self-educated English schoolteacher, to reintroduce the atomic ideas of Democritus. In 1803, Dalton wrote a series of postulates—claims he... 

John Dalton was a staunch Quaker. Because Quakers were barred from attending universities, they set up their own schools, which Dalton attended. These so-called Dissenting Academies were good schools, considered better than most of the other educational institutions in England at the time. In any case, for anyone born in 1766 as Dalton was, any kind of education conferred a huge advantage. Fewer than 1 in 200 English citizens could read. 

John Dalton (1766-1844), a self-educated English scientist, was primarily interested in meteorology and is credited with being the first to describe color blindness, a condition with which he was burdened throughout... 

The brewery founded in Manchester, England, by Joule s grandfather became so successful that Joule could pursue his scientific interests freely and at least initially without concern for finances. He was educated at home and by tutors, one of whom was John Dalton. He began research at the age of 19. 

Scientific laws summarize and predict behavior, but they do not explain the underlying cause. A hypothesis is an initial attempt to explain the underlying causes of observations and laws. A hypothesis is a tentative model (educated by observation) that is then tested by an experiment, a controlled observation specifically designed to test a hypothesis. One or more confirmed hypotheses (possibly with the additional support of observations and laws) may evolve into an overarching model of reality called a theory. A good theory often predicts behavior far beyond the observations and laws from which it was formulated. For example, John Dalton, an English chemist, used the law of conservation of mass along... 

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