1837 - 1898
John Alexander Reina Newlands (26 November 1837 – 29 July 1898) was a British chemist who worked concerning the periodicity of elements. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of John Newlands has received more than 11,884 page views. His biography is available in 34 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 31 in 2019). John Newlands is the 145th most popular chemist (up from 235th in 2019), the 772nd most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 913th in 2019) and the 17th most popular British Chemist.
John Newlands was most famous for the Law of Octaves, which he published in 1865. The law states that the atomic weights of elements are either whole number multiples of the atomic weight of hydrogen or are half-integers of the atomic weight of hydrogen.
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Among chemists, John Newlands ranks 145 out of 510. Before him are Ascanio Sobrero, Jean-Marie Lehn, John Frederic Daniell, Clara Immerwahr, Edward Adelbert Doisy, and Akira Suzuki. After him are Cyril Norman Hinshelwood, Stanley Miller, Robert S. Mulliken, William Howard Stein, Georg Wittig, and August Wilhelm von Hofmann.
1812 - 1888
HPI: 70.36
Rank: 139
1939 - Present
HPI: 70.35
Rank: 140
1790 - 1845
HPI: 70.32
Rank: 141
1870 - 1915
HPI: 70.31
Rank: 142
1893 - 1986
HPI: 70.30
Rank: 143
1930 - Present
HPI: 70.26
Rank: 144
1837 - 1898
HPI: 70.16
Rank: 145
1897 - 1967
HPI: 70.07
Rank: 146
1930 - 2007
HPI: 70.07
Rank: 147
1896 - 1986
HPI: 70.07
Rank: 148
1911 - 1980
HPI: 69.99
Rank: 149
1897 - 1987
HPI: 69.90
Rank: 150
1818 - 1892
HPI: 69.90
Rank: 151
Among people born in 1837, John Newlands ranks 19. Before him are Louis IV, Grand Duke of Hesse, Pedro V of Portugal, Prince Philippe, Count of Flanders, Paul Morphy, Ivan Kramskoi, and Georges Ernest Boulanger. After him are Vasil Levski, Rosalía de Castro, Empress Dowager Ci'an, Francis, Duke of Teck, Stephanie of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen, and Émile Waldteufel. Among people deceased in 1898, John Newlands ranks 20. Before him are Henry Bessemer, Syed Ahmad Khan, Theodor Fontane, Heungseon Daewongun, Aubrey Beardsley, and Eleanor Marx. After him are Félicien Rops, Edward Burne-Jones, Zachris Topelius, Princess Maria Antonia of the Two Sicilies, Ferdinand Cohn, and Georges Rodenbach.
1837 - 1892
HPI: 72.78
Rank: 13
1837 - 1861
HPI: 72.59
Rank: 14
1837 - 1905
HPI: 72.25
Rank: 15
1837 - 1884
HPI: 71.98
Rank: 16
1837 - 1887
HPI: 71.80
Rank: 17
1837 - 1891
HPI: 70.33
Rank: 18
1837 - 1898
HPI: 70.16
Rank: 19
1837 - 1873
HPI: 70.03
Rank: 20
1837 - 1885
HPI: 69.33
Rank: 21
1837 - 1881
HPI: 69.29
Rank: 22
1837 - 1900
HPI: 68.40
Rank: 23
1837 - 1859
HPI: 68.27
Rank: 24
1837 - 1915
HPI: 68.20
Rank: 25
1813 - 1898
HPI: 71.88
Rank: 14
1817 - 1898
HPI: 71.23
Rank: 15
1819 - 1898
HPI: 71.09
Rank: 16
1820 - 1898
HPI: 71.08
Rank: 17
1872 - 1898
HPI: 70.89
Rank: 18
1855 - 1898
HPI: 70.49
Rank: 19
1837 - 1898
HPI: 70.16
Rank: 20
1833 - 1898
HPI: 69.94
Rank: 21
1833 - 1898
HPI: 69.63
Rank: 22
1818 - 1898
HPI: 67.95
Rank: 23
1814 - 1898
HPI: 67.86
Rank: 24
1828 - 1898
HPI: 67.62
Rank: 25
1855 - 1898
HPI: 67.18
Rank: 26
Among people born in United Kingdom, John Newlands ranks 772 out of 6,924. Before him are Stanley Rous (1895), Guy Ritchie (1968), Anthony James Leggett (1938), Harold Lowe (1882), Pat Hitchcock (1928), and Daniel Rutherford (1749). After him are Jane Seymour (1951), David Coverdale (1951), Charles Spurgeon (1834), Terry Jones (1942), John Ray (1627), and Nevill Francis Mott (1905).
1895 - 1986
HPI: 70.23
Rank: 766
1968 - Present
HPI: 70.23
Rank: 767
1938 - Present
HPI: 70.21
Rank: 768
1882 - 1944
HPI: 70.21
Rank: 769
1928 - Present
HPI: 70.20
Rank: 770
1749 - 1819
HPI: 70.18
Rank: 771
1837 - 1898
HPI: 70.16
Rank: 772
1951 - Present
HPI: 70.16
Rank: 773
1951 - Present
HPI: 70.14
Rank: 774
1834 - 1892
HPI: 70.14
Rank: 775
1942 - 2020
HPI: 70.12
Rank: 776
1627 - 1705
HPI: 70.10
Rank: 777
1905 - 1996
HPI: 70.10
Rank: 778
Among chemists born in United Kingdom, John Newlands ranks 17. Before him are Robert Robinson (1886), Henry Hallett Dale (1875), Harry Kroto (1939), William Hyde Wollaston (1766), John Macleod (1876), and John Frederic Daniell (1790). After him are Cyril Norman Hinshelwood (1897), Richard Laurence Millington Synge (1914), Archer Martin (1910), Peter D. Mitchell (1920), John Pople (1925), and William Henry Perkin (1838).
1886 - 1975
HPI: 71.46
Rank: 11
1875 - 1968
HPI: 71.40
Rank: 12
1939 - 2016
HPI: 70.99
Rank: 13
1766 - 1828
HPI: 70.94
Rank: 14
1876 - 1935
HPI: 70.85
Rank: 15
1790 - 1845
HPI: 70.32
Rank: 16
1837 - 1898
HPI: 70.16
Rank: 17
1897 - 1967
HPI: 70.07
Rank: 18
1914 - 1994
HPI: 69.55
Rank: 19
1910 - 2002
HPI: 69.32
Rank: 20
1920 - 1992
HPI: 69.30
Rank: 21
1925 - 2004
HPI: 69.08
Rank: 22
1838 - 1907
HPI: 68.97
Rank: 23