The chemist John Dalton died at the age of 77. Here is all you want to know, and more!
Biography - A Short Wiki
English chemist and physicist who pioneered research in the field of atomic theory. He also studied color blindness and was one of the first to recognize the condition as being hereditary.
His first publication, “Meteorological Observations and Essays” (1793), was greatly influenced by his early study with the Quaker meteorologist, Elihu Robinson.
He suffered from color blindness and researched the condition extensively and, as a result, color blindness is sometimes called “Daltonism,” in his honor.
He never married or had children, and he lived a modest Quaker lifestyle.
After many of Dalton’s original manuscripts were lost during World War II, the writer Isaac Asimov remarked that people were not the only war-time casualties.
Quotes
"This paper will no doubt be found interesting by those who take an interest in it.
John Dalton
"I spent several years acquiring the obsessive, day-to-day discipline that’s needed if you want to write professionally, then several more, highly valuable years studying fiction writing at the University of Iowa.
John Dalton
"It’s the right idea, but not the right time.
John Dalton