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British chemist (1837–1898)

John Alexander Reina Newlands (26 November 1837 – 29 July 1898) 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.

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He was interested in social reform and during 1860 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 1864.

In 1868 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.

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