At the age of twelve John Dalton was already teaching other students in a school that he himself had set up. Dalton was fascinated with the weather and kept a daily meteorological journal. He was a creature of habit and a quiet person, with virtually no social life. Dalton had the theory that everything was made up of "ultimate particles" called atoms and his own atomic theory. He proposed that there were just as many atoms as there were elements, and that atoms had a atomic weight, and that different atoms have different weights. Dalton and made a huge theoretical leap with hi ideas, but was largely dismissed by the scientific community. Berzalius, a Swedish chemist, believed in Daltons theory and built on it. Berzalius discovered the elements silicon, thorium, selenium, and cerium. Berzelius also studied over two thousand chemical compounds and in 1828, created a table of the atomic weights of all the elements known during his time. Dobereiner found that elements were grouped into "triads" such as lithium, sodium and potassium. Dobereiner realized that that elements that reacted in similar ways must be grouped in a family. Dmitri Mendeleev was a Russian scientist who's mother had recognized when he was young that he was very intelligent, so she moved them to St. Petersburg so that he could get a good education. Ten months after they had moved to St. Petersburg, Mendeleev's mother died. His mother's death is partly what drove Mendeleev to work so hard at his research. Mendeleev spent three sleepless days and nights alone trying to organize the periodic table. When he finally fell asleep, the organized periodic table came to him during a dream. The Italian chemist Cannizaro discovered that equal volumes of gasses contain equal volumes of molecules. Cannizaro also set an agreed upon standard measurement of atomic weights. Newlands thought of elements being on a musical scale, came up with the "Law of Octaves" but this was dismissed by the scientific community during his time.
Option 3
Today's environment is filled with distractions. You can get distracted by the tv, your phone, laptop and a ton of other things. Todays distraction filled environment impacts my ability to achieve at a high level because with all of the distractions, its much harder to actually focus on what your working on and actually achieve something. Having all these distractions around you all the time also doesn't give you any chance to think about deep problems. If someone today wanted to stay awake for three days and nights thinking about one thing and how to solve it, it would be almost impossible for them because there are so many distractions and so much stuff to keep us entertained.
