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  1. James Clerk Maxwell (1831 - 1879) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Maxwell/

    26 Aug 2026: One of the tasks which occupied much of Maxwell's time between 1874 and 1879 was his work editing Henry Cavendish's papers. ... The volume entitled 'The Electrical Researches of the Honourable Henry Cavendish' was published in 1879, and is unequalled as

  2. Maxwell's Career - James Clerk Maxwell - The Great Unknown - Projects …

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Projects/Johnson/chapter-2/

    7 Mar 2023: 1870 The Theory of Heat - (see section 4.3). Cambridge University, Cavendish Professor of Physics (1871 to 1879). ... 1874-79 Edited the Cavendish papers which was a time consuming and largely unnecessary task as Henry Cavendish had recorded his work well

  3. sci_hi PDF (891k)

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/SH/maxwell_sh.pdf

    13 Dec 2025: Impact and Later Career. To his last scientific contributions belonged the evaluation of Henry Cavendish‘s works.[14] Cavendish was an influential chemist and physicist of the 18th century. ... Maxwell found out, that Cavendish already researched on

  4. Carey Frazer - MacTutor History of Mathematics

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Extras/Carey_Frazer/

    7 Mar 2023: Letter 3. Address: 3 Cavendish Terrace, Princes Park, Liverpool. Dated: 22 June 1912. ... He recommends George Henry Rendall's Charterhouse Sermons to Frazer as worth reading.

  5. Charles Boys - MacTutor History of Mathematics

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/TimesObituaries/Boys/

    28 May 2025: He also made use of quartz fibres in his repetition of Cavendish's famous experiment for the determination of the gravitational constant Here the torsion rod consisted of a small mirror ... He married Marion Amelia, daughter of Henry Pollock, in 1892.

  6. Black holes - MacTutor History of Mathematics

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/HistTopics/Black_Holes/

    7 Mar 2023: It was Michell who first suggested the existence of such a physical body in his letter to Henry Cavendish, published in November 1784 in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society

  7. John Henry Michell (1863 - 1940) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Michell/

    18 Jan 2026: George Michell, writes in [7] about his brother Henry's time at Cambridge:-. ... show). Other pages about John Henry Michell:. Other websites about John Henry Michell:.

  8. John William Strutt - MacTutor History of Mathematics

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/TimesObituaries/Rayleigh/

    28 May 2025: succeed him and was duly elected to the position, which carried with it the directorship of the Cavendish Laboratory. ... The five years he spent at the Cavendish Laboratory were extraordinarily fruitful, and during that period he continued a series of

  9. Joseph Larmor (1857 - 1942) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Larmor/

    21 Aug 2026: He also brought out a new version of Henry Cavendish's works in 1921, Maxwell had been the editor for the original publication.

  10. John T Graves (1806 - 1870) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Graves_John/

    21 Aug 2026: There are also many treasures such as Henry Cavendish's copy of Pascal's 'Traité de l'équilibre des liqueurs' of 1663 and, of special note, a copy of Galileo's