In this task you will be given a text passage from a trivia quiz. You should choose the category this question belongs to from these categories: History, Science, Social Science, Fine Arts, Literature. You can only choose one category, so if in doubt, please choose the closest match.
Q: This man, along with his cousin Timothy Folger, was the first to chart the Gulf Stream, which he gave its name. Along with John Hadley, this scientist conducted experiments in Cambridge that demonstrated the principle of evaporative (+) cooling. This scientist was the first to show the conservation of charge, and it is because of him that we use the terms ""positive"" and ""negative"" to describe charge. Georg Richmann was killed attempting to repeat an experiment in which this man attempted to show that vitreous and resinous (*) electricity were the same. For 10 points, name this inventor of the lightning rod and conductor of a kite experiment.
A:
History