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December 17, 1778 in The United Kingdom

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May 29, 1829

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Sir Humphry Davy, 1st Baronet FRS MRIA was a British chemist and inventor. He is probably 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. He invented the Davy lamp, which allowed miners to enter gassy workings. 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." This paper was central to any chemical affinity theory in the first half of the nineteenth century.

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Average rating: 3.50 · 2 ratings · 2 reviews · 20 distinct works

	Consolations in Travel 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2006 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Consolations in Travel: or the Last Days of a Philosopher by Humphry Davy, Henry Morley (Editor) 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2000 — 17 editions	My rating:
	On the fire-damp of coal mines 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating	My rating:
	A Syllabus of a Course of Lectures on Chemistry: Delivered at the Royal Institution of Great Britain (1802) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	My rating:
	Miscellaneous Papers and Researches: Especially on the Safety Lamp, and Flame, and on the Protection of the Copper Sheathing of Ships, from 1815 to 18 by Humphry Davy, John Davy (Editor) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	My rating:
	Miscellaneous Papers and Researches: Especially on the Safety Lamp, and Flame, and on the Protection of the Copper Sheathing of Ships, from 1815 to 18 by Humphry Davy, John Davy (Editor) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	My rating:
	The Collected Works of Sir Humphry Davy - Vol. IV 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	My rating:
	The Decomposition of the Fixed Alkalies and Alkaline Earths 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	My rating:
	Salmonia - Or, Days of Fly Fishing with Some Account of the Habits of Fishes Belonging to the Genus Salmo 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	My rating:
	Salmonia: Or Days of Fly-Fishing, by an Angler [Sir H. Davy.]. 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2010	My rating:

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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

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“Today, for the first time in my life, I have had a distinct sympathy with nature. I was lying on the top of a rock to leeward; the wind was high, and everything was in motion... the whole sky was in motion... everything was alive, and myself part of the series of visual impressions; I should have felt pain in tearing a leaf from one of the trees.”
― Humphry Davy, Fragmentary Remains, Literary and Scientific, of Sir Humphry, Davy, Bart., Late President of the Royal Society, Etc: With a Sketch of His Life and Sel

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