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In 1887, the Royal Society, London gave the Davy Medal for the ‘discovery of the periodic law of chemical elements’ to ______.

  1. AAEB de Chancourtois
  2. BDmitri Mendeleev
  3. CLothar Meyer
  4. DJohn Alexander NewlandCorrect answer
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D. John Alexander Newland

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John Alexander Reina Newlands received the Royal Society’s Davy Medal in 1887 for his discovery of the periodic law of the chemical elements. His law of octaves had drawn attention to recurring chemical properties. Mendeleev and Meyer had received the medal in 1882.

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