“There was Respiration, Nitrous Oxide, and unbounded Applause. Amen!”
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Humphry Davy
Sir Humphry Davy, 1st Baronet was a British chemist and inventor who invented the Davy lamp and an early form of arc lamp. He is also remembered for isolating, by using electricity, several elements for the first time: potassium and sodium in 1807 and calcium, strontium, barium, magnesium and boron the following year, as well as for discovering the elemental nature of chlorine and iodine. Davy als…
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science · British chemist and inventor (1778–1829) · chemist · inventor · physicist · geologist · photographer · poet · writer · naturalist · also Humphry Davy, Sir Humphy Davy, Sir Humphry Davy, Davy
Born 17 December 1778 · Died 29 May 1829 · Q131761
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2026· 3 entries
“Learning naturally is a true pleasure; how unfortunate then it is that in most schools it is made a pain.”
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Yahoo: Sir Humphry Davy’s Insight: Why Deserving Honors Matters More Than Receiving Them
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2025· 1 entry
The Hindu: The Science Quiz | 209 years ago, Humphry Davy first tested a peculiar lamp…
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2024· 1 entry
insider.si.edu: Humphry Davy papers and correspondence
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2021· 1 entry
Published “Tocilizumab in patients admitted to hospital with COVID-19 (RECOVERY): a randomised, controlled, open-label, platform trial” in The Lancet — cited 1,541 times.
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2018· 1 entry
BBC: Humphry Davy
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2017· 3 entries
The Conversation: Sir Humphry Davy used poetry and theatre to bring science to life
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RealClearScience: Humphry Davy's Potassium Volcano
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Published “Brain tumor segmentation with Deep Neural Networks” in Medical Image Analysis — cited 2,741 times.
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2005· 1 entry
New Scientist: Histories: Humphry Davy's dark side
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1998· 1 entry
Published “Osteoprotegerin Ligand Is a Cytokine that Regulates Osteoclast Differentiation and Activation” in Cell — cited 4,439 times.
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1997· 1 entry
Published “Osteoprotegerin: A Novel Secreted Protein Involved in the Regulation of Bone Density” in Cell — cited 4,065 times.
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1980· 1 entry
By folk-singer Brenda Wootton in the album Boy Jan Cornishman, the seven verses of which each recall a day of the week on which Davy purportedly made a particular discovery
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1905· 1 entry
Was written about Sir Humphry Davy:
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1872· 1 entry
A statue of Davy was erected in front of the Market Building, Penzance, (now owned by Lloyds TSB) at the top of Market Jew Street, Penzance
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1829· 1 entry
Died 1829-05-29.
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1827· 2 entries
Won Royal Medal (1827).
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The mineral davyne was named in his honour by W
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1826· 2 entries
Won Royal Society Bakerian Medal (1826).
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Davy suffered a stroke from which he never fully recovered
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1825· 1 entry
His promotion of the new Zoological Society, of which he was a founding fellow, courted the landed gentry and alienated expert zoologists
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1821· 1 entry
Regarding Faraday's first major discovery independent of Davy, of electromagnetic rotation (the first electric motor)
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1820· 1 entry
Career landmark: President of the Royal Society (1820–1827).
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1816· 2 entries
Won Rumford Medal (1816).
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At Hebburn Colliery in North East England
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1815· 2 entries
Davy suggested that acids are substances that contain replaceable hydrogen ions; that is, hydrogen that could be partly or totally replaced by reactive metals which are placed above hydrogen in the reactivity series
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Davy began experimenting with lamps that could be used safely in coal mines
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1812· 2 entries
Davy was knighted and gave up his lecturing position at the Royal Institution
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“It must be used with great caution. It is not safe to experiment upon a globule larger than a pin”
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1811· 1 entry
And had lost two fingers and an eye in two separate explosions with it
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1810· 2 entries
Chlorine was given its current name by Humphry Davy, who insisted that chlorine was in fact an element
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And a Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1822
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1807· 2 entries
Awarded Galvanism Prize (1807).
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And calcium, strontium, barium, magnesium and boron the following year, as well as for discovering the elemental nature of chlorine and iodine
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1805· 1 entry
Won Copley Medal (1805).
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1802· 1 entry
Humphry Davy had what was then the most powerful electrical battery in the world at the Royal Institution
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1800· 5 entries
And asked Davy to deal with the Bristol publishers of the Lyrical Ballads, Biggs & Cottle
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“As I was walking up the street”
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From August to Novr", Davy wrote his own Lyrical Ballad: "As I was walking up the street"
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Davy informed Giddy that he had been "repeating the galvanic experiments with success" in the intervals of the experiments on the gases, which "almost incessantly occupied him from January to April
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Davy published his Researches, Chemical and Philosophical, chiefly concerning Nitrous Oxide and its Respiration, and received a more positive response
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1778· 1 entry
Born 1778-12-17.
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