John Dalton was an English chemist, meteorologist, and physicist born in 1766. He made several important scientific contributions, including pioneering research on color blindness known as Daltonism. He is most famous for Dalton's atomic theory, which proposed that all matter is composed of indivisible atoms and that atoms of a given element are all identical. However, Dalton built upon prior work by others and did not discover some concepts like the law of partial pressures that bear his name. While his atomic theory was highly influential, it did not give full credit to predecessors.