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May 29, 1829 (50 years old)
Zodiac Sign
Sagittarius
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Humphry Davy
Sir Humphry Davy, Baron I was a Cornish chemist and inventor who invented the Davy lamp and a very early form of arc lamp. He is also remembered for isolating, using electricity, first a variety of elements: potassium and sodium in 1807 and calcium, strontium, barium, magnesium and boron the following year, as well as discovering the nature. elemental chlorine. and boron. iodine. Davy also studied the forces involved in this splitting, inventing a new field of electrochemistry. In 1799, he experimented with nitrous oxide and was amazed at how it made him laugh, so he named it "laughing gas" and wrote about its potential anesthetic properties for pain relief during surgery. Davy is a baron, President of the Royal Society, a Fellow of the Royal Irish Academy, a Fellow of the Geological Society, and a Fellow of the American Philosophical Association.
BornDecember 17, 1778, Penzance, Cornwall, England
DiedMay 29, 1829, Geneva, Switzerland
NationalityBritish
FieldsChemistry
InstitutionsRoyal Society, Royal Institution
Known forElectrolysis, aluminium, sodium, potassium, calcium, strontium, magnesium, barium, boron, Davy lamp
InfluencesBenjamin Thompson
InfluencedMichael Faraday, William Thomson
Notable awardsCopley Medal (1805), Prix du galvanisme (1807), Rumford Medal (1816), Royal Medal (1827)

About Humphry Davy

Chemist Humphry Davy was born in England on December 17, 1778. He dies at the age of 50, on May 29, 1829.

English chemist and inventor who made various alkali and alkaline earth metal discoveries. In 1815, he devised the Davy Lamp, a safer alternative to previous mine lamps that was used in coal mines.

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Humphry Davy before becoming famous

Humphry Davy was born in the Zodiac sign Sagittarius (The Centaur/Archer), and 1778 is also the year of Dog (狗) in the Chinese Zodiac.

Bingham Borlase, a French physician, was his mentor.

Achievement of Humphry Davy

The Royal Society of London has given an annual Davy Medal to a distinguished chemist since 1877.

Humphry Davy's Family, Spouse, Dating and Relationship

Grace Millet was his wife at the time.

Humphry Davy Collabed with

Both he and Virologist Louis Pasteur made significant advances to chemistry.

Louis Pasteur (1822 - 1895) (Virologist)
Louis Pasteur (1822 - 1895)

Virologist

Humphry Davy Income & Net worth

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