John Dalton and His Atomic Theory

John Dalton and His Atomic Theory
<Tab/>John Dalton was a British chemist who discovered the first helpful atomic theory of matter. John Dalton discovered this theory in the year 1803 (Cain, 2001). John Dalton's atomic theory states all matter is made up of atoms which are indestructible and unchangeable, elements are characterized by the mass of their atoms, compounds are formed by a combination of two or more different kinds of atoms, and atoms are not created, destroyed or converted into other kinds of atoms during chemical reactions. Many of Dalton's ideas were acquir…