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Henry Cavendish

1731 - 1810

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Henry Cavendish ( KAV-ən-dish; 10 October 1731 – 24 February 1810) was an English experimental and theoretical chemist and physicist. He is noted for his discovery of hydrogen, which he termed "inflammable air". He described the density of inflammable air, which formed water on combustion, in a 1766 paper, On Factitious Airs. Antoine Lavoisier later reproduced Cavendish's experiment and gave the element its name. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Henry Cavendish is the 59th most popular physicist (down from 37th in 2019), the 224th most popular biography from France (down from 167th in 2019) and the 7th most popular French Physicist.

Henry Cavendish is most famous for his experiments with electricity. He was the first person to measure the density of the Earth.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Henry Cavendish ranks 59 out of 851. Before him are K. Alex Müller, Wilhelm Wien, Gaspard-Gustave de Coriolis, Richard Feynman, Sheldon Lee Glashow, and Patrick Blackett. After him are Otto Stern, Leo Szilard, Wolfgang Pauli, Andrei Sakharov, Heike Kamerlingh Onnes, and Max Born.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1731, Henry Cavendish ranks 1. After him are Maria Josepha of Saxony, Dauphine of France, Erasmus Darwin, Charles Lee, Martha Washington, William Aiton, Samuel Huntington, Marcello Bacciarelli, Abraham Hyacinthe Anquetil-Duperron, Maria Fortunata d'Este, Ove Høegh-Guldberg, and Gaetano Pugnani. Among people deceased in 1810, Henry Cavendish ranks 1. After him are Axel von Fersen the Younger, Louise of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, Jean-Georges Noverre, Marie Joséphine of Savoy, Johann Wilhelm Ritter, Chevalier d'Éon, Philipp Otto Runge, Nachman of Breslov, Johann Christian Daniel von Schreber, Johan Zoffany, and Andreas Hofer.

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In France

Among people born in France, Henry Cavendish ranks 224 out of 6,770. Before him are Henri Rousseau (1844), Frédéric Passy (1822), Louis XI of France (1423), François-René de Chateaubriand (1768), Carloman I (751), and Brigitte Macron (1953). After him are Alexis de Tocqueville (1805), Alfred Sisley (1839), Gustave Doré (1832), Nicolas-Louis de Lacaille (1713), Michel Platini (1955), and Louis, Grand Dauphin (1661).

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Among PHYSICISTS In France

Among physicists born in France, Henry Cavendish ranks 7. Before him are Pierre Curie (1859), André-Marie Ampère (1775), Henri Becquerel (1852), Louis de Broglie (1892), Charles-Augustin de Coulomb (1736), and Gaspard-Gustave de Coriolis (1792). After him are Léon Foucault (1819), Frédéric Joliot-Curie (1900), Jean Baptiste Perrin (1870), François Arago (1786), Albert Fert (1938), and Alfred Kastler (1902).

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