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Humphry Davy
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Humphry Davy
Sir Humphry Davy, 1st Baronet
(17 December 177829 May 1829) was a
Cornish
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)
.
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