work while he was at the laboratory. Cavendish's work aroused Maxwell's intense admiration and he decided to call the Laboratory (formerly known as the Devonshire Laboratory) the Cavendish Laboratory and thus to commemorate both the Duke and Henry Cavendish.

Physics

Several important early physics discoveries were made here, including the discovery of the electron by J.J. Thomson, the Townsend discharge by John Sealy Townsend,

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