Heritage of London Trust

Yesterday we celebrated the restoration of Victorian chemist John Newlands’s grave in West Norwood Cemetery. Newlands (1837 – 1898) was the first to identify the patterns in elements that later became the Periodic Table. His ‘Law of Octaves’ was ridiculed by contemporaries but he published his work in a series of articles from 1864 in Chemical News five years before the Russian chemist Dimitri Mendeleev (1834-1907) announced what we know as the Periodic Table. The Royal Society awarded Newlands