# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/henry-cavendish
# Generated: 2026-08-31T19:34:39.045Z

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name: "Henry Cavendish"
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description: "He isolated hydrogen, weighed the planet, and barely spoke to anyone while doing it. Cavendish treated the natural world like a locked room problem — and solved several that had stumped everyone else."
tagline: "English natural philosopher, and scientist (1731–1810)"
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birthDate: "1731-10-10"
deathDate: "1810-02-24"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Born in 1731, Cavendish came to chemistry and physics with a temperament better suited to monasteries than salons: shy, methodical, and uninterested in credit. In 1766 he published a paper describing "inflammable air" — hydrogen — noting its density and the fact that it formed water when burned. Lavoisier would later repeat the work and name the element. Cavendish moved on: atmospheric composition, the synthesis of water, electrical forces, a mechanical theory of heat. His most famous work came late, an experiment so precise it measured the density of the Earth itself, a feat that allowed later scientists to derive the gravitational constant. He died in 1810, having documented the world with a rigor few could match and a public presence almost no one remembered.