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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 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 1,284,234 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

Among physicists, Henry Cavendish ranks 31 out of 717Before 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.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1731, Henry Cavendish ranks 1After 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 1After 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.

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In France

Among people born in France, Henry Cavendish ranks 173 out of 6,011Before 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).

Among PHYSICISTS In France

Among physicists born in France, Henry Cavendish ranks 5Before 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).