Humphry Davy
Sir Humphry Davy, 1st Baronet, FRS (Fellow of the Royal Society) (born 17 December 1778 in Penzance, Cornwall, England; died 29 May 1829 in Geneva City, Switzerland),[1][2][3] was a Cornish chemist. His study of chemistry led to the first pure forms of some of the chemical elements such as water and sodium.
Humphry Davy Media
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A leat from the mill pond at Rosehill. The Lariggan River is to the right.
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Davies Giddy (later: Davies Gilbert)
Thomas Beddoes (1760–1808)
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Site of the Pneumatic Institution, Bristol
- James Watt by Carl Frederik von Breda (cropped).jpg
James Watt in 1792 by Carl Frederik von Breda
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Sir Humphry Davy's Researches chemical and philosophical: chiefly concerning nitrous oxide (1800), pp. 556 and 557 (right), outlining potential anaesthetic properties of nitrous oxide in relieving pain during surgery
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William Wordsworth at 28, by William Shuter (1798)
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge, by Peter Vandyke (1795)
References
- ↑ "Sir Humphry Davy, Baronet - British chemist". Encyclopedia Britannica.
- ↑ "Davy". Archived from the original on 2009-02-18. Retrieved 2008-05-27.
- ↑ "Sir Humphry Davy". Archived from the original on 2012-11-14. Retrieved 2008-05-27.