James Clerk Maxwell is also the first…

James Clerk Maxwell is also the first to make explicit use of dimensional analysis, in 1871.

In this year, he becomes the first Cavendish Professor of Physics at Cambridge.

Put in charge of the development of the Cavendish Laboratory, he supervises every step in the progress of the building and of the purchase of the very valuable collection of apparatus paid for by its generous founder, the 7th Duke of Devonshire (chancellor of the university, and one of its most distinguished alumni).

One of Maxwell's last great contributions to science is the editing (with copious original notes) of the electrical researches of Henry Cavendish, from which it appears that Cavendish had researched, among other topics, such questions as the mean density of the earth and the composition of water.