Humphry Davy
1778 - 1829
- Born
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17 December 1778
Penzance, Cornwall, England
- Died
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29 May 1829
Hotel room, Geneva, Switzerland
- Nationality
- British
- Gender
- Male
- Date of election for Royal Society fellowship
- 17/11/1803
- Fields of Interest
- Chemistry
- Catalogue
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- Wikipedia
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Author of
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Paper, 'Account of some galvanic combinations' by Humphry Davy
Creator: Humphry Davy Reference number: L&P/11/167 -
Paper, 'An account of some experiments and observations on the constituent parts of certain vegetables and on their operation in tanning' by Humphry Davy
Creator: Humphry Davy Reference number: L&P/12/48 -
Paper, 'Account of experiments on a mineral substance from Devonshire' by Humphry Davy
Creator: Humphry Davy Reference number: L&P/12/92 -
Paper, 'A method of analysing stones containing fixed alkali by means of boracic acid' by Humphry Davy
Creator: Humphry Davy Reference number: L&P/12/102 -
Paper, 'On some chemical agencies of electricity being the Bakerian Lecture' by Humphry Davy
Creator: Humphry Davy Reference number: PT/1/2
Recipient of
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Unpublished letter and translation, regarding chemical researches from J [Jons Jakob] Berzelius to Humphry Davy
Creator: Jons Jakob Berzelius Reference number: AP/11/4 -
Unpublished paper, 'On the agency of the electro-magnetic principle in giving movement and impulse to the planetary system' by Edmund Cartwright
Creator: Edmund Cartwright Reference number: AP/11/6 -
Unpublished paper and letter, on a new system of navigation by [Jean François?] Poulliot
Reference number: AP/11/14 -
Unpublished letter, 'Observations on the changes which have taken place in some antient [ancient] alloys of copper' from John Davy to Sir Humphry Davy
Creator: John Davy Reference number: AP/12/7 -
Unpublished letters, on magnetic variation and poles from John Macdonald to Sir Humphry Davy
Creator: John Macdonald Reference number: AP/12/15 -
Letter from, Alexander McLeay to Sir Humphrey Davy, dated at Sydney, New South Wales
Creator: Alexander McLeay Reference number: HS/13/11