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Cavendish, Henry
[person]
English chemist and physicist born in Nice, France (1731-1810). Cavendish's most important work was isolating hydrogen and describing its properties. He also researched electrical capacitance and used a torsion balance (now named for him) to measure the gravitational constant (G), which allowed him to calculate the mass of the Earth.
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