Sir Humphry Davy: Facts & Related Content

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Born December 17, 1778 • PenzanceEngland
Died May 29, 1829 (aged 50) • GenevaSwitzerland
Founder Zoological Society of London
Awards And Honors Copley Medal (1805)
Inventions Davy lamp
Notable Works “Elements of Agricultural Chemistry”“Researches, Chemical and Philosophical”
Subjects Of Study alkaline-earth metalboronchlorineelectrolysisgasiodinenitrous oxidephosphinepotassiumsodiumprimary celltanning

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Joseph-Louis Gay-Lussac, engraving by Ambroise Tardieu.
Joseph-Louis Gay-Lussac
French scientist
Michael Faraday
Michael Faraday
British physicist and chemist
William Hyde Wollaston, detail of a pencil drawing by J. Jackson; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
William Hyde Wollaston
British scientist
Jöns Jacob Berzelius
Jöns Jacob Berzelius
Swedish chemist
Joseph Priestley
Joseph Priestley
English clergyman and scientist
Cavendish, Henry
Henry Cavendish
British physicist
Robert Bunsen
Robert Bunsen
German chemist
James Lovelock
James Lovelock
English chemist, doctor, and author
Nicholson, William
William Nicholson
English chemist and inventor
Frederick Augustus Abel, engraving.
Sir Frederick Augustus Abel
British chemist
Ernest Rutherford
Ernest Rutherford
British physicist
Sanger, Frederick
Frederick Sanger
British biochemist
John Herschel
Sir John Herschel, 1st Baronet
English astronomer
Dorothy Hodgkin
Dorothy Hodgkin
English chemist
Sir John A. Pople
British mathematician and chemist
Klug, Aaron
Aaron Klug
Lithuanian-born British chemist
Crookes
Sir William Crookes
British chemist
Daniell, John Frederic
John Frederic Daniell
British chemist
British chemist and physicist James Dewar
Sir James Dewar
British scientist

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