The English physicist and chemist Henry Cavendish (1731-1810) determined the value of the universal constant of gravitation, made noteworthy electrical studies, and is credited with the discovery of hydrogen and the composition of water. Henry...

Today Henry Cavendish is recognized as one of the most brilliant scientists of his day, but his contemporaries knew him to be an extremely unusual person. Throughout his life Cavendish avoided women entirely; he even went so far as to order his female...

Today, Henry Cavendish is recognized as one of the most brilliant scientists of his day, but his contemporaries knew him to be an extremely unusual person. Throughout his life, Cavendish avoided women entirely; he even went so far as to order his...

1731-1810 English Chemist and Physicist Henry Cavendish made many significant contributions to a wide range of scientific endeavors and is regarded as one of the greatest scientist of his day. He is best known for his work with the chemistry of gases,...

Henry Cavendish, FRS (October 10, 1731 - February 24, 1810) was a British scientist noted for his discovery of hydrogen or what he called "inflammable air".[1] He described the density of inflammable air, which formed water on combustion, in a 1766...

To the Memory of Glenn T. Seaborg (1912-1999) WHATEVER ELSE MAY BE SAID regarding the relative status of Henry Cavendish and Antoine Lavoisier in connection with the great chemical revolution that finally occurred at the end of the eighteenth century, I believe it...

I. Godwin's The Man in the Moone Francis Godwin's own age knew him primarily as the bishop of Hereford and as an "incomparable historian, being no less critical in histories than the learned Selden"; he was also the friend and fellow antiquary...