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 13,311 page views. His biography is available in 38 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 34 in 2019). John Newlands is the 105th most popular chemist (up from 145th in 2019), the 551st most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 772nd in 2019) and the 10th 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 105 out of 509. Before him are Johannes Nicolaus Brønsted, Stanley B. Prusiner, Gerhard Ertl, Yves Chauvin, Willard Libby, and James B. Sumner. After him are Henry Hallett Dale, Robert Robinson, Carl Ferdinand Cori, Antoni Grabowski, Wendell Meredith Stanley, and Heinrich Otto Wieland.
1879 - 1947
HPI: 64.11
Rank: 99
1942 - Present
HPI: 64.01
Rank: 100
1936 - Present
HPI: 63.91
Rank: 101
1930 - 2015
HPI: 63.89
Rank: 102
1908 - 1980
HPI: 63.88
Rank: 103
1887 - 1955
HPI: 63.87
Rank: 104
1837 - 1898
HPI: 63.85
Rank: 105
1875 - 1968
HPI: 63.84
Rank: 106
1886 - 1975
HPI: 63.82
Rank: 107
1896 - 1984
HPI: 63.82
Rank: 108
1857 - 1921
HPI: 63.79
Rank: 109
1904 - 1971
HPI: 63.76
Rank: 110
1877 - 1957
HPI: 63.76
Rank: 111
Among people born in 1837, John Newlands ranks 17. Before him are Marie François Sadi Carnot, Tokugawa Yoshinobu, Pedro V of Portugal, Paul Morphy, Prince Philippe, Count of Flanders, and Louis IV, Grand Duke of Hesse. After him are Ivan Kramskoi, Georges Ernest Boulanger, Francis, Duke of Teck, Vasil Levski, Empress Dowager Ci'an, and Ilia Chavchavadze. Among people deceased in 1898, John Newlands ranks 12. Before him are Charbel Makhlouf, Eugène Boudin, Louise of Hesse-Kassel, Ivan Shishkin, Johann Jakob Balmer, and Pierre Puvis de Chavannes. After him are Charles Garnier, Aubrey Beardsley, Félicien Rops, Heungseon Daewongun, Henry Bessemer, and Syed Ahmad Khan.
1837 - 1894
HPI: 65.37
Rank: 11
1837 - 1913
HPI: 65.06
Rank: 12
1837 - 1861
HPI: 64.47
Rank: 13
1837 - 1884
HPI: 64.38
Rank: 14
1837 - 1905
HPI: 64.19
Rank: 15
1837 - 1892
HPI: 64.07
Rank: 16
1837 - 1898
HPI: 63.85
Rank: 17
1837 - 1887
HPI: 63.65
Rank: 18
1837 - 1891
HPI: 61.20
Rank: 19
1837 - 1900
HPI: 61.05
Rank: 20
1837 - 1873
HPI: 60.94
Rank: 21
1837 - 1881
HPI: 60.75
Rank: 22
1837 - 1907
HPI: 59.95
Rank: 23
1828 - 1898
HPI: 67.48
Rank: 6
1824 - 1898
HPI: 67.13
Rank: 7
1817 - 1898
HPI: 66.46
Rank: 8
1832 - 1898
HPI: 65.58
Rank: 9
1825 - 1898
HPI: 65.09
Rank: 10
1824 - 1898
HPI: 64.61
Rank: 11
1837 - 1898
HPI: 63.85
Rank: 12
1825 - 1898
HPI: 63.77
Rank: 13
1872 - 1898
HPI: 63.30
Rank: 14
1833 - 1898
HPI: 63.13
Rank: 15
1820 - 1898
HPI: 62.70
Rank: 16
1813 - 1898
HPI: 62.68
Rank: 17
1817 - 1898
HPI: 62.64
Rank: 18
Among people born in United Kingdom, John Newlands ranks 551 out of 7,765. Before him are Roger Glover (1945), Fred Perry (1909), Alexander Pope (1688), John Smith (1580), Alice Liddell (1852), and Alfred Molina (1953). After him are Gordon Banks (1937), Henry Hallett Dale (1875), Elizabeth Blackwell (1821), Cecily Neville, Duchess of York (1415), Robert Robinson (1886), and Mike Hawthorn (1929).
1945 - Present
HPI: 63.94
Rank: 545
1909 - 1995
HPI: 63.94
Rank: 546
1688 - 1744
HPI: 63.90
Rank: 547
1580 - 1631
HPI: 63.88
Rank: 548
1852 - 1934
HPI: 63.87
Rank: 549
1953 - Present
HPI: 63.86
Rank: 550
1837 - 1898
HPI: 63.85
Rank: 551
1937 - 2019
HPI: 63.84
Rank: 552
1875 - 1968
HPI: 63.84
Rank: 553
1821 - 1910
HPI: 63.84
Rank: 554
1415 - 1495
HPI: 63.83
Rank: 555
1886 - 1975
HPI: 63.82
Rank: 556
1929 - 1959
HPI: 63.81
Rank: 557
Among chemists born in United Kingdom, John Newlands ranks 10. Before him are Frederick Sanger (1918), Frederick Soddy (1877), William Crookes (1832), Francis William Aston (1877), Frederick Gowland Hopkins (1861), and Norman Haworth (1883). After him are Henry Hallett Dale (1875), Robert Robinson (1886), James Dewar (1842), John Macleod (1876), Cyril Norman Hinshelwood (1897), and Arthur Harden (1865).
1918 - 2013
HPI: 68.29
Rank: 4
1877 - 1956
HPI: 67.72
Rank: 5
1832 - 1919
HPI: 67.56
Rank: 6
1877 - 1945
HPI: 67.08
Rank: 7
1861 - 1947
HPI: 65.66
Rank: 8
1883 - 1950
HPI: 64.17
Rank: 9
1837 - 1898
HPI: 63.85
Rank: 10
1875 - 1968
HPI: 63.84
Rank: 11
1886 - 1975
HPI: 63.82
Rank: 12
1842 - 1923
HPI: 63.72
Rank: 13
1876 - 1935
HPI: 63.51
Rank: 14
1897 - 1967
HPI: 63.41
Rank: 15
1865 - 1940
HPI: 62.47
Rank: 16