31. William s claims to the discovery of the chemical atomic theory is found in " Comparative View ". 32. After Dalton published his atomic theory in 1808, certain of his central ideas were soon adopted by most chemists. 33. The law of multiple proportions is one of the basic laws of stoichiometry used to establish the atomic theory . 34. In 1989, science fiction writer Poul Anderson wrote a text about basic atomic theory called " Uncleftish Beholding ". 35. John Dalton, the chemist and physicist best known for his advocacy of atomic theory , is amongst those buried there. 36. After speaking about the atomic theory of Democritus, Maxwell goes on to tell us that the word'molecule'is a modern word. 37. It is as factual an explanation of the universe as the atomic theory of matter or the germ theory of disease. 38. This belief was ultimately overturned by Dalton s atomic theory , which asserted that atoms can only combine in simple, whole-number ratios. 39. Thermodynamics deals with matter in a macroscopic sense; it would be valid even if the atomic theory of matter were wrong. 40. For these achievements, of fundamental importance to atomic theory , he was awarded the Copley Medal by the Royal Society in 1891.
