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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-French natural philosopher and scientist who was an important 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Henry Cavendish has received more than 1,398,402 page views. His biography is available in 83 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 81 in 2019). Henry Cavendish is the 37th most popular physicist (down from 31st in 2019), the 167th most popular biography from France (up from 173rd in 2019) and the 5th 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 37 out of 851. Before him are Luigi Galvani, Gustav Kirchhoff, Max Born, Andrei Sakharov, Paul Dirac, and Richard Feynman. After him are Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit, Wolfgang Pauli, Lise Meitner, Gerard 't Hooft, Max von Laue, and Pieter Zeeman.

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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, Martha Washington, Abraham Hyacinthe Anquetil-Duperron, William Aiton, Marcello Bacciarelli, Gabriela Silang, Christian Cannabich, Gaetano Pugnani, Louis Eugene, Duke of Württemberg, and Ove Høegh-Guldberg. Among people deceased in 1810, Henry Cavendish ranks 1. After him are Axel von Fersen the Younger, Louise of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, Nachman of Breslov, Marie Joséphine of Savoy, Jean-Georges Noverre, Johann Wilhelm Ritter, Philipp Otto Runge, Andreas Hofer, Chevalier d'Éon, Johann Christian Daniel von Schreber, and Andrianampoinimerina.

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In France

Among people born in France, Henry Cavendish ranks 167 out of 6,770. Before him are Jacques Cartier (1491), Peter Abelard (1079), Philip VI of France (1293), Pope Martin IV (1220), Théodore Géricault (1791), and Jacques Cousteau (1910). After him are Jean Racine (1639), Tacitus (54), Jean-Philippe Rameau (1683), Edward IV of England (1442), Pierre-Joseph Proudhon (1809), and Jean Bodin (1530).

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Among PHYSICISTS In France

Among physicists born in France, Henry Cavendish ranks 5. Before him are Pierre Curie (1859), Henri Becquerel (1852), André-Marie Ampère (1775), and Charles-Augustin de Coulomb (1736). After him are Frédéric Joliot-Curie (1900), Léon Foucault (1819), Gaspard-Gustave de Coriolis (1792), Louis de Broglie (1892), Hans Bethe (1906), Jean Baptiste Perrin (1870), and François Arago (1786).

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