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Henry Cavendish

1731–1810 · United Kingdom · Born in the 1700s

Isolated hydrogen (“inflammable air”) and showed that water is formed when it burns.

Fields

General chemistry Inorganic chemistry

Chemists in the same field

Joseph Priestley (1733)Joseph Black (1728)Carl Wilhelm Scheele (1742)Antoine Lavoisier (1743)John Dalton (1766)Amedeo Avogadro (1776)