John Newlands (chemist)

He is responsible for arranging the known elements in order of increasing atomic weight, and found that elements with similar properties occurred at regular intervals. He divided the elements into seven groups of eight, in what he later called the 'law of octaves'.

John Newlands (chemist) Media

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  View of house where J. A. R. Newlands was born and raised in West Square, London, England.*Photograph by Jonathan Bowen, 27 July 2006.

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  Newlands periodiska system 1866

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  On the Discovery of the Periodic Law and on Relations among the Atomic Weights (1884)