Roscoe, referring to the two life-sized marble statues which face each other in the Manchester Town Hall, says with pardonable pride: "Thus honor is done to Manchester's two greatest sons—to Dalton, the founder of modern Chemistry and of the Atomic Theory, and the discoverer of the laws of chemical combining proportions; to Joule, the founder of modern Physics and the discoverer of the Law of the Conservation of Energy."
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Sir William Ramsay, The Gases of the Atmosphere and the History of their Discovery.
Sir Henry E. Roscoe, John Dalton.
Sir E. Thorpe, Essays in Historical Chemistry.