Henry Cavendish

Henry Cavendish's story in the modern day, by contrast, is so dominated by cryptography and cheesy action sequences that it comes to read like an academic's parody of Dan Brown.

Trying to Keep Parallel Narratives on the Rails Sam Sacks 2011

The shy Henry Cavendish (1731-1810), barely able to speak in public (forget about it if women were present), proved that air and water were not elements in and of themselves but were made up of even more basic stuff.

Young Men and Fire Adam Savage 2011

In Louis Bayard's historical whodunit "The School of Night" Henry Holt, 338 pages, $25 , Tudor scholar Henry Cavendish succumbs to the terrible and all-consuming madness of book-collecting.

Trying to Keep Parallel Narratives on the Rails Sam Sacks 2011

Henry Cavendish published his findings only sporadically, thus leaving some of his significant discoveries unknown until long after his death.

Cavendish, Henry 2009

These included Scheele, Henry Cavendish, Joseph Priestley, and others.

Nitrogen 2009

Argon (Greek meaning "idle" or “lazy” in reference to its chemical inactivity) was suspected to be present in air by Henry Cavendish in 1785 but was not discovered until 1894 by Lord Rayleigh and Sir William Ramsay in Scotland in an experiment in which they removed all of the oxygen and nitrogen from a sample of air.

Argon 2009

It was Henry Cavendish who collected the gas over Mercury in 1766, subjected it to systematic study, and reported his findings in 1766 to the Royal Society.

Hydrogen 2008

Madame Lavoisier learned English, in order to translate the work of British chemists like Joseph Priestley and Henry Cavendish for her husband.

Lavoisier James Killus 2007

Madame Lavoisier learned English, in order to translate the work of British chemists like Joseph Priestley and Henry Cavendish for her husband.

Archive 2007-11-01 James Killus 2007

Cavendish, daughter and co-heiress of Henry Cavendish, second Duke of Newcastle, and was one of the richest nobles in England.

The Journal to Stella 2003