Long after other scientists had been credited with the same results
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Henry Cavendish
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. Antoine Lavoisier later reproduced Cavendish's experiment and gave the element its name.
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science · English natural philosopher, and scientist (1731–1810) · chemist · physicist · mathematician · also Henry Cavendish, Cavendish
Born 10 October 1731 · Died 24 February 1810 · Q131733
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Almost 100 years after the Cavendish experiment
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Died 1810-02-24.
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“s density. The first time that the constant got this name was in 1873, almost 100 years after the Cavendish experiment. Cavendish”
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Won Copley Medal (1766).
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1731· 1 entry
Born 1731-10-10.
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