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Who was the first person credited with developing an atomic theory based on the results of experiments?

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Daltons work was all based on experiments and he imagined an atom as a billiard ball
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John Dalton, an English chemist and meteorologist, is credited with the first modern atomic theory based on his experiments with atmospheric gases.

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