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Henry Cavendish


 

Nice 10.October.1731 - London  24.October.1810

 




Biographical Notes

 
       

       
   
Great noble family came down from one, with a patrimony between  largest of England. The father Lord Charles Cavendish had already carried out important jobs on the electricity. He is born  to Nizza, where  the mother resided for health reasons,  remained orphaned to the age of two years. He attended the University of Cambridge to the Peter house where learned mathematics slight knowledge, but he did not carry at the end the studies. Became however physicist and experimenter,  in 1760 were member of the Royal Society and in 1803 it entered to make part of the French Institute.   Its job in the electric field  never did not come published, but it was found again and  valued from Maxwell  that published the jobs in 1870.
   

 

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