Henry Cavendish discovered which element?
Henry Cavendish Henry Cavendish Henry Cavendish FRS (; 10 October 1731 – 24 February 1810) was an English natural philosopher, scientist, and an important experimental and theoretical chemist and physicist. Cavendish is noted for his discovery of hydrogen or what he called "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. A notoriously shy man (it has been postulated that he had what is now called childhood autism in the ICD-10), Cavendish was nonetheless distinguished for great accuracy
Lord Henry Cavendish Cavendish died young on 10 May 1700, as reported by Edward Southwell on 11 May 1700: "My Lord Henry Cavendish, after suffering above a fortnight violently under a dead palsy died yesterday morning." Cavendish was buried at his family's estate, Chatsworth. According to one newspaper account of his death, the young Cavendish was "much lamented, he being one of the most accomplished gentlemen in England." Lord Henry Cavendish Lord Henry Cavendish (1673 – 10 May 1700) was an English nobleman and politician, the second surviving son of William Cavendish, 1st Duke of Devonshire. Cavendish was educated abroad, traveling through Austria,