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.
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A leat from the mill pond at Rosehill. The Lariggan River is to the right.
Davies Giddy (later: Davies Gilbert)
Thomas Beddoes (1760–1808)
Site of the Pneumatic Institution, Bristol
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
William Wordsworth at 28, by William Shuter (1798)
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, by Peter Vandyke (1795)
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References
- ↑ Sir Humphry Davy, Baronet - British chemist. Encyclopedia Britannica.
- ↑ Davy. Retrieved 2008-05-27.
- ↑ Sir Humphry Davy. Retrieved 2008-05-27.