Short biography of john newlands

British chemist (–)

John Alexander Reina Newlands (26 November – 29 July ) was a British chemist who worked concerning the periodicity of elements.^[1]

Biography

Newlands was born in London in England, at West Square in Southwark, the son of a Scottish Presbyterian minister and his Italian wife.^[2]

Newlands was home-schooled by his father, and later studied at the Royal College of Chemistry, now part of Imperial College London.

He was interested in social reform and during served as a volunteer with Giuseppe Garibaldi in his military campaign to unify Italy.^[3] Returning to London, Newlands established himself as an analytical chemist in In he became chief chemist of James Duncan's London sugar refinery, where he introduced a number of improvements in processing.

Later he quit the refinery and again became an analyst with his brother, Benjamin.

Newlands was the first person to devise a periodic table of chemical ele