Fact 1
He did not name hydrogen, but he discovered it in 1766 as 'inflammable air'.
Fact 2
He conducted the first experiment to measure the force of gravity titled the Cavendish experiment.
Fact 3
Although he attended the University of Cambridge, now called Peterhouse, he did not receive his degree.
Antony Hewish FRS is a British radio astronomer who won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1974 (together with fellow radio-astronomer Martin Ryle) for his work on the development of radio aperture synthesis and its role in the discovery of pulsars
A Scottish chemist who discovered the noble gases.
Was a New-Zealand born chemist and physicist.
Was a British physicist.
Albert Abraham Michelson was an American physicist known for his work on the measurement of the speed of light and especially for the Michelson–Morley experiment
is an English physicist and former musician, a Royal Society University Research Fellow, PPARC Advanced Fellow at the University of Manchester
A French physicist.
An American inventor and the "Father of Radio".
Was an English explorer and anthropologist and often called the “father of eugenics”.