can anyone tell me where I can find info about the chemist John Newland?

Answer 1

First of all, the name seems to be wrong. I guess what you mean is the chemist "John Newlands"

John Alexander Reina Newlands (November 26, 1838 - July 29, 1898) was an English analytical chemist who prepared in 1863 the first periodic table of the elements arranged in order of relative atomic masses, and pointed out in 1865 the 'law of octaves' whereby every eighth element has similar properties. This came from a musical background. He was ridiculed at the time, but five years later Russian chemist Dmitri Mendeleev published - independent of Newlands' work - a more developed form of the table, also based on atomic masses, which forms the basis of the one used today (arranged by atomic number).

Newlands was born in London and studied there at the Royal College of Chemistry. In 1860 he served as a volunteer with Giuseppe Garibaldi in his campaign to unify Italy (Newlands was of Italian descent on his mother's side). He set up in practice as an analytical chemist in 1864, and in 1868 became chief chemist in a sugar refinery, where he introduced a number of improvements in processing. Later he left the refinery and again set up as an analyst.

Like many of his contemporaries, Newlands first used the terms 'equivalent weight' and 'atomic weight' without any distinction in meaning, and in his first paper in 1863 he used the values accepted by his predecessors. The incompleteness of a table he drew up 1864 he attributed to the possible existence of additional, undiscovered elements. For example, he predicted the existence of germanium.In 1894 had a child by the name of Christoper Maddocks Newlands.

Answer 2

John Newland Chemist

Answer 3

In the 1860s, English chemist John Newland showed that all the chemical elements fall into eight families. Since Pythagorean mysticism was unfashionable at that time, Newland was literally laughed at and rejected by the Royal Chemical Society. In the 1870s, with much more detail than Newland, the Russian chemist Mendeleyev proved once and for all that the elements do, indeed, fall into eight families. His Periodic Table of the Elements, an octave of hauntingly Pythagorean harmony, hangs in every high-school chemistry class today. (The Royal Society later apologized to Newland and gave him a Gold Medal.)

Nikolai Tesla invented the alternating current generator which unleashed the modern technological revolution after a series of visions in which, among other things, Tesla "saw" that everything in the universe obeys a law of Octaves.

Modern geneticists have found that the DNA-RNA "dialogue" -- the molecular information system governing life and evolution - it transmitted by 64 (8x8) codons.

R. Buckminster Fuller, in his Synergetic-Energetic Geometry, which he claims is the "co-ordinate system of the Universe," reduces all phenomena to geometric-energetic constructs based on the tetrahedron (4-sided), the octet truss (8-sided) and the coupler (8-faceted with 24 phases). Fuller argues specifically that the 8-face, 24-phase coupler underlies the 8-fold division of the chemical elements on the Mendeleyev Periodic Table.

In 1973, unaware of Fuller's coupler - which I called to his attention later - Dr. Leary began to divide his 8 circuits into a 24-stage Periodic Table of Evolution (see diagram). Leary also began attempting to correlate this with the Periodic Table of Elements in chemistry.

The eight families of elements are:

Alkalis
Alkalines
Borons
Carbons
Nitrogens
Oxygens
Halogens
Noble Gases

Answer 4

I think it's John Newlands, with an s at the end of thename. I googled him and there is little info. I'll bet a trip to a University Library will be necessary.

Answer 5

yes' it's me go to Google and type "chemist John Newland" then yo will find all info.. and do as i say

Answer 6

More info is available by searching,

http://www.todayinsci.com/

Answer 7

library

Answer 8

There are tons of webpages about him!

Answer 9

http://www.aeroinvest.com/broadcast/mta2000pr/PeriodicElements.htm

Answer 10

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Alexander_Reina_Newlands