Atomic+Discoveries+from+year+1700+to+1800

 Henry Cavendish ** Oct. 10, 1731, d. Feb. 24, 1810 **

Henry Cavendish discovered hydrogen in 1783 and oxygen in 1778

During the French Revolution, he was beheaded for supposedly selling watered-down tobacco and other miscellaneous crimes.

Sir Isaac Newton 1643-1727

This English dude was sitting under a tree, in 1704, then he got hit in the head with an apple, and so he then gave gravity its name. He also proposed the three laws of motion.