Henry Cavendish, French-English chemist, physicist, and philosopher (died 1810)

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.…