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contribution of william henry

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William Henry , (born Dec. 12, 1775, Manchester—died Sept. 2, 1836, Pendlebury, Lancashire, Eng.), English physician and chemist who in 1803 proposed what is now called Henry’s law, which states that the amount of a gas absorbed by a liquid is in proportion to the pressure of the gas above the liquid, provided that no chemical action occurs.