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1766 – 1844John Dalton (1766-1844)Died 27 July 1844, aged 77English chemist and physicist who developed modern atomic theory and proposed that each element is made of atoms of a distinct weight. He also gave the first scientific description of colour blindness, which is sometimes called Daltonism.