Who proposed the law of octaves?

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The law of octaves was proposed by an English Chemist John Alexander Reina Newlands.
When the elements are arranged in the order of their increasing atomic masses, there are much similarity in the properties of every eighth element.
This repetition is called as the ‘law of octaves’.

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