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Humphry Davy

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Gender Male
Death194 years ago
Born Penzance
United Kingdom
DiedGeneva
Switzerland
Spouse Jane Apreece
Discovered Potassium
Sodium
Calcium
Magnesium
Boron
Barium
Strontium
Siblings John Davy
AddressCoombe Rd, Penzance TR18 2TG
Number of students687
Founded1910
School types Secondary school
Local authorityCornwall Council
Phone 01736 363559
Job Chemist
Inventor
Photographer
Poet
Physicist
Geologist
Awards Royal Medal
Rumford Medal
Copley Medal
Date of birth December 17,1778
Zodiac sign Sagittarius
Education Truro Cathedral School
NationalityBritish
Date of died May 29,1829
Influencees Michael Faraday
William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin
Charles F. Brush
Lord Kelvin
Date of Reg.
Date of Upd.
ID440069

Elements of chemical philosophy
Consolations in Travel; Or, the Last Days of a Philosopher
Elements of agricultural chemistry
Researches, Chemical and Philosophical; Chiefly Concerning Nitrous Oxide: Or Dephlogisticated Nitrous Air, and Its Respiration
The Collected Works of Sir Humphry Davy . . . : Discourses Delivered Before the Royal Society. Elements of Agricultural Chemistry, PT. I
The Decomposition of the Fixed Alkalies and Alkaline Earths
The Elementary Nature of Chlorine
Fragmentary Remains, Literary and Scientific, of Sir Humphry, Davy, Bart. , Late President of the Royal Society, Etc: With a Sketch of His Life and Selections from His Correspondence
Humphry Davy on Geology: The 1805 Lectures for the General Audience
On the safety lamp for preventing explosions in mines, houses lighted by gas, spirit warehouses, or magazines in ships, &c: with some researches on flame
Some Experiments and Observations on the Colours Used in Painting by the Ancients
The Collected Works of Sir Humphry Davy: Bakerian lectures and miscellaneous papers from 1806 to 1815
Fragmentary Remains Literary and Scientific of Sir Humphry Davy - Scholar's Choice Edition
On the Safety Lamp for Coal Miners
Elements of Chemical Philosophy [Christmas Summary Classics]
Salmonia: Or, Days of Fly Fishing - Scholar's Choice Edition
Miscellaneous Papers and Researches, Especially on the Safety Lamp, and Flame, and on the Protection of the Copper Sheathing of Ships, from 1815 To 1828
Salmonia
Conversations on Chemistry: In Which the Elements of That Science Are Familiarly Explained and Illustrated by Experiments and Plates: To Which Are Added, Some Late Discoveries on the Subject of the Fixed Alkalies
The Collected Works of Sir Humphry Davy: Agricultural lectures, pt. 2, and other lectures
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Sir Humphry Davy, 1st Baronet, FRS, MRIA, FGS was a British chemist and inventor who invented the Davy lamp and a very early form of arc lamp.

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