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Noun: Dalton  dol-t(u)n
  1. English chemist and physicist who formulated atomic theory and the law of partial pressures; gave the first description of red-green colour blindness (1766-1844)
    - John Dalton

Type of: chemist, physicist

Encyclopedia: Dalton, New Hampshire

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