IN the review of “A New View of the Origin of Dalton's Atomic Theory,” published in your issue of April 16, your reviewer, in summing up the evidence as to the origin of the atomic theory, makes an ...

__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 ...

At a stroke, his new theory of atoms crushed the alchemists and their magic formulas for gold. He had set chemistry on the path to becoming a modern science. "The crucial step was to write down ...

THE origin of the former of these two books is well explained in the following passage from the short introduction: A New View of the Origin of Dalton's Atomic Theory: a Contribution to Chemical ...