Talk:John Newlands (chemist)

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What other important things were going on at the time of John Newlands in history? What year did he get married? Did he do anything else really imortant for chemistry? And what are some personal facts about him that would be interesting?

Publish date?
There is a dispute over the date Newlands' law was published (the reviewer says 1864) as noted in the review by Science of Dmitri Medeleev. Can someone comment based on the information on that talk page? - Taxman Talk 22:41, 3 January 2006 (UTC)

Newlands published several short letters on classification of elements from 1863 to 1865 and he read a paper on the subject to the Chemical Society in 1866. (This paper was not published, but an account of it was reported in the Chemical News.) He applied the term "Law of octaves" starting in 1865. In my opinion, the term law of octaves does not apply to his work before 1865, because the idea of repetition on every 8th element was absent before then. See Newlands' letters with or without annotations. --192.231.124.80 (talk) 20:05, 19 November 2007 (UTC)Carmen Giunta

Sarcasm
Some one asked sarcastically if Newlands had tried alphabetical order. This was a reference to exceptions in the versions. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.177.171.194 (talk) 15:44, 15 March 2010 (UTC) Foster seems to have been the one who asked about alphabetical order. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 93.97.194.200 (talk) 12:23, 22 March 2010 (UTC) Professor George C. Foster has often been quoted. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 93.97.194.200 (talk) 12:34, 22 March 2010 (UTC)

Son Birth Date
It seems that the birth date of the son is 16 years after Newlands died! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 1.64.112.163 (talk) 11:13, 10 October 2012 (UTC)

Requested move 21 August 2015

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The result of the move request was: moved to John Newlands (chemist). Unanimous agreement "John Newlands" is his common name, no consensus on whether he's the primary topic so we default to the status quo (i.e. that he isn't). Jenks24 (talk) 17:27, 6 September 2015 (UTC)

John Alexander Reina Newlands → John Newlands – No reason for including both his middle names. Reliable sources, the BBC and the Royal Society of Chemistry, refer to him as simply 'John Newlands'. Zacwill16 ( talk ) 17:42, 21 August 2015 (UTC) --Relisted. George Ho (talk) 00:15, 29 August 2015 (UTC)
 * Support per WP:COMMONNAME.--Staberinde (talk) 15:36, 24 August 2015 (UTC)
 * Move to John Newlands (chemist), as there is another John Newlands and neither seem to have primacy. -- Necrothesp (talk) 14:01, 26 August 2015 (UTC)
 * In a Google search for 'John Newlands', all of the top results refer to the chemist, not the politician. Zacwill16  ( talk ) 21:36, 1 September 2015 (UTC)
 * Support John Newlands (chemist) GregKaye 02:03, 29 August 2015 (UTC)


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Chemistry
Did he create any experiments? 95.149.133.143 (talk) 12:20, 5 December 2021 (UTC)