Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun cavendish

1 sense of cavendish

Sense 1
Cavendish, Henry Cavendish -- (British chemist and physicist who established that water is a compound of hydrogen and oxygen and who calculated the density of the earth (1731-1810))
       INSTANCE OF=> chemist -- (a scientist who specializes in chemistry)
       INSTANCE OF=> physicist -- (a scientist trained in physics)