Tag: John Dalton

Born on this day in 1833, Alfred Nobel was a Swedish chemist, engineer, inventor, businessman, and philanthropist, after whom the Nobel Prize was named. Did you know that: • English scientist John Dalton read his paper on the absorption of gases by water to the Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society on this day in 1803• […]

Clarence Saunders opened the first true supermarket, the “Piggly Wiggly”, in Memphis on this day in 1916. Did you know that: • John Dalton, a British physicist who developed the atomic theory of matter, was born on this day in 1766• Edward V. Appleton, a noted British physicist who pioneered radiophysics, was born on this day […]