Humphry Davy grew up poor helping his mother pay off debts left by his father, a woodcarver who had lost his earnings in speculative investments. As a result, Davy's education was haphazard, and he disliked being a student. The schools in his part of...

Humphry Davy grew up poor, helping his mother pay off debts left by his father, a woodcarver who had lost his earnings in speculative investments. As a result, Davy's education was haphazard, and he disliked being a student. The schools in his part of...

The English chemist and natural philosopher Sir Humphry Davy (1778-1829) isolated and named the elements of the alkaline-earth and alkali metals and showed that chlorine and iodine were elements. Humphry Davy was born on Dec. 17, 1778, in Penzance,...

1778-1829 English Chemist Humphry Davy is most famous for his discoveries of potassium, sodium, chlorine, and other elements using powerful voltaic batteries. Through his research he established the science of electrochemistry. On a more practical...

Sir Humphry Davy, 1st Baronet, FRS (17 December 1778 – 29 May 1829) was a British chemist and physicist. He was born in Penzance, Cornwall and both his brother John Davy and cousin Edmund Davy were also noted chemists. Berzelius called Davy's 1806...

David Knight Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1998 Ppxiv+218, [pounds]30/$49.95, ISBN 0 521 56539 1 When I think of the people and events that have shaped my career, I inevitably think of my first scientific hero, Humphry Davy - a true romantic and...

Humphry Davy (1778-1829) was the most renowned scientist in Britain during the first decades of the nineteenth century. His discoveries in chemistry, especially his identification of a number of new elements, made him a figure of immense stature both at home and abroad....