1731 - 1810
Henry Cavendish ( KAV-ən-dish; 10 October 1731 – 24 February 1810) was an English 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 1,297,032 page views. His biography is available in 81 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 78 in 2019). Henry Cavendish is the 31st most popular physicist (down from 30th in 2019), the 173rd most popular biography from France (down from 160th 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, Henry Cavendish ranks 31 out of 717. Before him are Charles-Augustin de Coulomb, Luigi Galvani, Daniel Bernoulli, Richard Feynman, Hendrik Lorentz, and Ibn al-Haytham. After him are Gustav Kirchhoff, Louis de Broglie, Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit, William Gilbert, Paul Dirac, and Léon Foucault.
1736 - 1806
HPI: 77.05
Rank: 25
1737 - 1798
HPI: 76.66
Rank: 26
1700 - 1782
HPI: 75.57
Rank: 27
1918 - 1988
HPI: 75.46
Rank: 28
1853 - 1928
HPI: 74.96
Rank: 29
965 - 1039
HPI: 74.92
Rank: 30
1731 - 1810
HPI: 74.40
Rank: 31
1824 - 1887
HPI: 74.38
Rank: 32
1892 - 1987
HPI: 74.19
Rank: 33
1686 - 1736
HPI: 73.76
Rank: 34
1544 - 1603
HPI: 73.61
Rank: 35
1902 - 1984
HPI: 73.53
Rank: 36
1819 - 1868
HPI: 73.53
Rank: 37
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, Marcello Bacciarelli, Gaetano Pugnani, Christian Cannabich, William Aiton, Ove Høegh-Guldberg, Maria Fortunata d'Este, and Louis Eugene, Duke of Württemberg. Among people deceased in 1810, Henry Cavendish ranks 1. After him are Axel von Fersen the Younger, Louise of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, Nachman of Breslov, Jean-Georges Noverre, Chevalier d'Éon, Marie Joséphine of Savoy, Johann Wilhelm Ritter, Philipp Otto Runge, Johann Christian Daniel von Schreber, Andrianampoinimerina, and Andreas Hofer.
1731 - 1810
HPI: 74.40
Rank: 1
1731 - 1767
HPI: 67.74
Rank: 2
1731 - 1802
HPI: 64.38
Rank: 3
1731 - 1802
HPI: 61.26
Rank: 4
1731 - 1805
HPI: 57.02
Rank: 5
1731 - 1818
HPI: 54.54
Rank: 6
1731 - 1798
HPI: 53.66
Rank: 7
1731 - 1798
HPI: 53.11
Rank: 8
1731 - 1793
HPI: 52.28
Rank: 9
1731 - 1808
HPI: 52.10
Rank: 10
1731 - 1803
HPI: 52.07
Rank: 11
1731 - 1795
HPI: 52.00
Rank: 12
1731 - 1810
HPI: 74.40
Rank: 1
1755 - 1810
HPI: 68.62
Rank: 2
1776 - 1810
HPI: 68.09
Rank: 3
1772 - 1810
HPI: 63.96
Rank: 4
1727 - 1810
HPI: 63.74
Rank: 5
1728 - 1810
HPI: 63.69
Rank: 6
1753 - 1810
HPI: 63.47
Rank: 7
1776 - 1810
HPI: 62.21
Rank: 8
1777 - 1810
HPI: 62.04
Rank: 9
1739 - 1810
HPI: 60.32
Rank: 10
1745 - 1810
HPI: 59.74
Rank: 11
1767 - 1810
HPI: 59.46
Rank: 12
Among people born in France, Henry Cavendish ranks 173 out of 6,011. Before him are Louis Daguerre (1787), Pope Gregory XI (1370), Philip VI of France (1293), Jean-Philippe Rameau (1683), Jeanne Calment (1875), and Louis X of France (1289). After him are Louis Bonaparte (1778), Joseph Bonaparte (1768), Louis VIII of France (1187), Pope John XXII (1244), Pope Urban V (1310), and François Viète (1540).
1787 - 1851
HPI: 74.64
Rank: 167
1370 - 1378
HPI: 74.56
Rank: 168
1293 - 1350
HPI: 74.56
Rank: 169
1683 - 1764
HPI: 74.49
Rank: 170
1875 - 1997
HPI: 74.46
Rank: 171
1289 - 1316
HPI: 74.41
Rank: 172
1731 - 1810
HPI: 74.40
Rank: 173
1778 - 1846
HPI: 74.39
Rank: 174
1768 - 1844
HPI: 74.38
Rank: 175
1187 - 1226
HPI: 74.37
Rank: 176
1244 - 1334
HPI: 74.37
Rank: 177
1310 - 1370
HPI: 74.32
Rank: 178
1540 - 1603
HPI: 74.32
Rank: 179
Among physicists born in France, Henry Cavendish ranks 5. Before him are Pierre Curie (1859), André-Marie Ampère (1775), Henri Becquerel (1852), and Charles-Augustin de Coulomb (1736). After him are Louis de Broglie (1892), Léon Foucault (1819), Frédéric Joliot-Curie (1900), Gaspard-Gustave de Coriolis (1792), Jean Baptiste Perrin (1870), Paul Langevin (1872), and Hippolyte Fizeau (1819).
1859 - 1906
HPI: 81.34
Rank: 1
1775 - 1836
HPI: 80.85
Rank: 2
1852 - 1908
HPI: 78.87
Rank: 3
1736 - 1806
HPI: 77.05
Rank: 4
1731 - 1810
HPI: 74.40
Rank: 5
1892 - 1987
HPI: 74.19
Rank: 6
1819 - 1868
HPI: 73.53
Rank: 7
1900 - 1958
HPI: 72.84
Rank: 8
1792 - 1843
HPI: 69.92
Rank: 9
1870 - 1942
HPI: 69.37
Rank: 10
1872 - 1946
HPI: 68.53
Rank: 11
1819 - 1896
HPI: 67.80
Rank: 12