The Division of Adolescent Medicine provides primary and consultation services for adolescents and young adults between 12 and 21 years of age. We have a separate waiting room and examination area for these patients and offer services tailored to their needs and health care issues.
Modern atomic theory is generally said to begin with John Dalton, an English chemist and meteorologist who in 1808 published a book on the atmosphere and the behavior of gases that was entitled A New System of Chemical Philosophy.
Modern Atomic Theory (John Dalton) Experiments with gases that first became possible at the turn of the nineteenth century led John Dalton in 1803 to propose a modern theory of the atom based on the following assumptions. 1. Matter is made up of atoms that are indivisible and indestructible. 2. All atoms of an element are identical. 3.