Henry Cavendish, French-English physicist and chemist (born 1731)

Henry Cavendish

English natural philosopher, and scientist (1731–1810)

Henry Cavendish 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.…