Henry Cavendish
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British natural philosopher, scientist, and an important experimental and theoretical chemist and physicist
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Henry Cavendish 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. Antoine Lavoisier later reproduced Cavendish's experiment and gave the element its name.
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