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Humphry Davy

Born

in Penzance, Cornwall, England, The United Kingdom

December 17, 1778

Died

May 29, 1829

Website

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humphry_Davy

Genre

Science, Chemistry, Invention

Influences

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Sir Humphry Davy (17 December 1778 – 29 May 1829) was an English chemist and inventor. He is best remembered today for his discoveries of several alkali and alkaline earth metals, as well as contributions to the discoveries of the elemental nature of chlorine and iodine. Berzelius called Davy's 1806 Bakerian Lecture On Some Chemical Agencies of Electricity "one of the best memoirs which has ever enriched the theory of chemistry." He was a 1st Baronet, President of the Royal Society (PRS), Member of the Royal Irish Academy (MRIA), and Fellow of the Geological Society (FGS).

A plaque to honour him is on the wall of the Royal Panopticon of Science and Arts in 1854.

A lunar crater (Davy) is named after Sir Humphry Davy. It has a diameter of 34 km ...more

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	Researches, Chemical and Philosophical, Chiefly Concerning Nitrous Oxide, or Dephlogisticated Nitrous Air, and Its Respiration. it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 1800 — 26 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Elements of Agricultural Chemistry - In a Course of Lectures it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2006 — 34 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Collected Works Of Sir Humphry Davy ...: Discourses Delivered Before The Royal Society. Elements Of Agricultural Chemistry, Pt. I by Humphry Davy (Creator), Leo Tolstoy it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2015 — 617 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Decomposition of the Fixed Alkalies and Alkaline Earths it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2009 — 31 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Considerations on Representative Government really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2010	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Electrochemische Untersuchungen really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Salmonia: Or Days of Fly Fishing liked it 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1870 — 143 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	The Collected Works of Sir Humphry Davy: Elements of Chemical Philosophy by Humphry Davy, John Davy liked it 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2010 — 21 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Collected Works of Sir Humphry Davy liked it 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2001 — 25 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Nothing is so dangerous to the progress of the human mind than to assume that our views of science are ultimate, that there are no mysteries in nature, that our triumphs are complete and that there are no new worlds to conquer.”
― Humphry Davy

tags: exploration, mind, science

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“Life is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but of little things, in which smiles and kindnesses and small obligations, given habitually, are what win and preserve the heart, and secure comfort.”
― Humphry Davy

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“You are now in a state in which a fly would be whose microscopic eye was changed to one similar to that of man: and you are wholly unable to associate what you see with your former knowledge.”
― Humphry Davy

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